In the Sept. 4 edition of the New Jersey Law Journal, I wrote about the need to complete the unification of our New Jersey court system, begun in 1947, by finally adding the municipal court system into our superior court, with full-time prosecutors, judges and courts. I suggested that vast improvement in providing fair and impartial resolution of minor criminal and motor vehicle complaints could be realized with unification.
The present municipal court system only functions as a result of the efforts of dedicated judges, prosecutors, public defenders and, yes, defense attorneys. Judges labor to resolve massive case loads under the scrutiny of presiding judges, assignment judges and AOC representatives. They preside over sessions that go late into the night, addressing domestic violence complaints and requests for search warrants to obtain blood samples in DWI cases at all hours of the night. The system however, is structurally flawed. Some of these problems can best be explained by analogy with gravity, the force that holds our physical world together.
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