Defendants With 13,000 Tainted Convictions Might Soon Have Day in Court, But Some Find Progress Too Slow
"None of my clients has been scheduled to go to court. They haven't been given a date to appear. These people call my office and they want a status report and we have a duty to tell them, but there is no progress," Matthew Reisig, a Freehold attorney, said.
July 21, 2021 at 05:43 PM
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Criminal LawMore than two years after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that thousands of defendants were convicted of drunken driving based on faulty evidence, those parties may soon get a chance to clear their names. But the slow pace of the proceedings is causing frustration for some attorneys and litigants.
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