L-R: Matthew Adams, Jeanne LoCicero, Alexander Shalom and Lawrence Lustberg. Courtesy photos Jury Selection Via Zoom Is So Thorny, a New Jersey Court Lawyered Up—and Beat a Challenge
The order puts a halt to disruption in a case that is central to the judiciary's effort to resolve any glitches with COVID-19-related procedures before restarting criminal and civil jury trials statewide.
October 13, 2020 at 02:26 PM
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In a dispute over jury selection in the age of COVID-19, New Jersey's judiciary has been vindicated in a dispute over whether it can be represented by its own lawyer in the courtroom during a trial where its post-pandemic jury selection procedures came under challenge.
In an order made public Tuesday, the Appellate Division found no merit in a challenge to the judiciary's post-pandemic jury selection process. The panel lifted a stay in State v. Dangcil, the state's first new jury trial in six months, and sent the case back to Bergen County Superior Court for the trial to resume.
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