In a recently decided appeal, State v. Lavrik, 472 N.J. Super. 192 (App. Div. 2022), the appellate court considered a case of "first impression," to wit, whether a victim in a criminal matter has standing to appeal from the granting by the trial court of a defendant's motion for a "civil reservation" (i.e. an order barring admission of a guilty plea in a civil proceeding) where the victim had failed to move to intervene in the case but instead had applied to the trial judge at the end of the hearing admitting him to pretrial intervention (PTI) after entering a guilty plea. The judge granted the victim's motion and subsequently ruled that the defendant was entitled to a civil reservation.