By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | June 8, 2017
Trial Court's Failure to Review Denial of Public Defender Representation Erroneous, and Warranted New Trial
By Charles Toutant | June 5, 2017
The Appellate Division has ordered a new trial for a defendant convicted of passing bad checks after finding that the trial judge misapplied the applicable law on self-representation in criminal cases.
By Mitchell H. Portnoi | June 5, 2017
Does the punishment fit the crime of possessing a small amount of marijuana, when alcohol and cigarettes are legal?
By Michael Booth | May 26, 2017
Criminal defendants in New Jersey who are charged with firearms-related offenses, or who are arrested for committing a crime while on release awaiting trial, are now likely candidates for automatic pretrial detention under guidelines released on Thursday by the state Supreme Court.
By Michael Booth | May 24, 2017
In a ruling that ethics attorneys say is not as startling as it might appear, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday indefinitely suspended two lawyers and disbarred a third for sex offenses involving children, but stopped short of issuing a bright-line disbarment rule in such cases.
By Michael Booth | May 18, 2017
A New Jersey judge has ruled that a bank cannot be held liable in the case of a medical office billing clerk who allegedly stole $2 million from her employer and deposited the money into an account she set up at the bank.
By Michael Booth | May 16, 2017
Defense lawyers and prosecutors argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court over whether law enforcement should make witnesses available for cross-examination in pretrial detention hearings for criminal suspects.
By Charles Toutant | May 16, 2017
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has made it harder to prove double jeopardy in cases where a defendant is charged with two related offenses. The court on a 5-2 voteTuesday held that double jeopardy protection from a second conviction applies where a defendant who has been convicted of one offense is charged with another offense requiring proof of the same elements.
By Tom McParland | May 12, 2017
Former U.S. attorneys and criminal defense lawyers on Friday criticized a new Department of Justice directive instructing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges that they can prove.
By Cogan Schneier | May 10, 2017
The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Noel Francisco for solicitor general, Makan Delrahim to head the Antitrust Division and Steven Engel to oversee the Office of Legal Counsel, but committee Democrats used their time to address the FBI director's termination.
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