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Covers news, information, and events about criminal defense law in the state of New Jersey including shoplifting, drunken driving and theft.
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New Jersey Mother DUI Arrest with Child in Car

Posted on May 27, 2009
A New Jersey woman faces charges of driving under the influence of drugs, child endangerment and reckless driving after she ran a red light and weaved onto the wrong side of the road, according to this news report in The Intelligencer. Police say 24-year-old Laura A...

Motor Vehicle Commission Suspensions in New Jersey

Posted on May 27, 2009
As we all know as motorists in New Jersey, having our license to drive is incredibly important. The public transportation system in New Jersey is less than ideal, and most of us rely on our cars to get to work, school, run errands, pick up kids, etc...

New Jersey Pre-Trial Intervention (PTI) Applications: Drug Offenses

Posted on May 22, 2009
A recent New Jersey Appellate Division case addressed the issue of whether a defendant should be allowed to apply for Pre-Trial Intervention (PTI), even if the application is unlikely to be granted due to the prosecutor?s opposition. Defendant Robert Dwayne Green was indicted on three related third-degree CDS offenses, based on his alleged drug sale in New Jersey of $150...

New Jersey Assault Charges against Man on Several Counts

Posted on May 20, 2009
A Hoboken, New Jersey, man has been accused of assaulting two police officers after they responded to a domestic abuse report at a borough apartment, the Bergen County Record reports in an article. Michael Colombo, 44, was confronted by two officers at the second-floor apartment after he allegedly struck a female tenant, leaving her with a swollen left eye...

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New Jersey Lawmakers to Consider Post-Crash Sobriety Test Requirement

Posted on May 13, 2009
Drivers who are involved in New Jersey traffic fatality or serious injury crashes would be required to take a field sobriety test under a bill recently introduced in the New Jersey Legislature. According to this news report in the Insurance Journal, Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, who is co-sponsoring the bill, has said that this requirement would help law enforcement officials determine whether or not a driver should be charged with a crime in connection with the auto accident...

Vehicle Searches by Police

Posted on May 06, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a recent ruling in the case of Arizona v. Gant, ruled that police may search the passenger compartment of a vehicle incident to a recent occupant?s arrest only if it is reasonable to believe that the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest...

New Jersey Sex Crimes, Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

Posted on May 05, 2009
A Secaucus accountant has been sentenced to five years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to luring young boys to various locations in Wayne and photographing them performing sexual acts, according to a story from the Bergen County Record. Michael Findlay, 38, of Paterson, New Jersey, was arrested on February 23, 2007 after an investigation by the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, which began after one of the boys' parents tipped off officials...

Immunity For Underage Drinkers In New Jersey

Posted on May 05, 2009
On May 4, 2009 the New Jersey Senate Law, Public Safety and Veteran?s Affairs Committee approved a bill that grants immunity to any individual under the age of 21 who has been drinking if that person contacts the police because he or she fears that another underage drinker has consumed too much alcohol and is in need of medical help...

Jewelry Heist Leads to New Jersey Bust

Posted on April 29, 2009
Westerville police officials believe that the recent arrest of six men in a New Jersey hotel has broken a jewelry theft ring that operated on a national scale. According to this report, police used DNA evidence and fingerprints taken from the scene of a jewel heist to link the men to a string of recent robberies of jewelers in New Jersey, New York City and other locations across the country...

New Jersey DUI, Vehicular Manslaughter: Man Gets Prison Sentence

Posted on April 27, 2009
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for an alcohol-related car accident that killed a 13-year-old girl. According to this news report, 23-year-old Joshua Nicholas Giarra of Robbinsville pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle, DUI, recklessly endangering another person and other related charges...

New Jersey Public Official Admits Accepting Bribes

Posted on April 22, 2009
A recent report from the Fort Mill Times claims that a New Jersey public works official has admitted accepting as much as $70,000 in bribes from contractors seeking favorable rulings on city contracts. Tommaso Calautti, 44, of New Milford pled guilty recently to accepting payoffs from three contractors from May 2003 to July 2008...

Ocean Township Drug Charges against Two Men

Posted on April 17, 2009
After an extensive investigation over a period of at least eight months, dozens of people?including two men from Ocean Township?are facing a wide range of criminal charges including drug trafficking and drug possession in New Jersey with intent to sell...

New Jersey Sex Assault Confession Allowed by Supreme Court

Posted on April 10, 2009
New Jersey?s Supreme Court reinstated child sexual assault convictions recently for a man who claimed that his confession should not have been presented in his trial. According to details in this news report, John Nyhammer's 2003 convictions on aggravated sexual assault in New Jersey and child endangerment charges had been overturned when an appeals court ruled that he had not voluntarily waived his rights against self-incrimination...

New Jersey Marijuana Cultivation Case Denied Dismissal by Superior Court Judge

Posted on April 06, 2009
An article published on NJ.COM explains how a Superior Court judge refused to dismiss charges against a Somerset County man accused of growing 17 medical marijuana plants at his home. The man grew the plants, he says, because he suffers from multiple sclerosis and the drug alleviates his symptoms...

New Jersey Police Seize 100 Pounds of Marijuana

Posted on April 03, 2009
A report published on the website NJ.COM, describes how authorities in Vineland seized nearly 100 pounds of marijuana believed to be headed to Cumberland County via a tractor trailer. State police began an investigation which ultimately resulted in the arrest of the driver of the tractor trailer, 35 year old Davenport, Fla...

New Jersey Marijuana Defense Attorneys Launch New Site

Posted on April 02, 2009
The state of New Jersey has a distinctive approach to Marijuana Law for those who have been arrested for or charged with possession of marijuana, selling, or cultivation of marijuana. As of March 2009, New Jersey law enforces severe penalties on individuals convicted of marijuana related crimes...

New Brunswick Robbery Sentences Man to 15 Years

Posted on April 01, 2009
A recent report claims that a man described as a career criminal has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbing a man on a bicycle in New Brunswick. Jermaine Smith-Echevarria, 32, of New Brunswick robbed a 38-year-old man pushing a bicycle around midnight on May 26, 2007, on Townsend Street and Lee Avenue...

Twenty Minute Observation Upheld in DWI Cases

Posted on March 30, 2009
Superior Court Judge Mitchel Ostrer of Mercer County held on March 5, in State v. Nagorniak, that the State must prove by clear and convincing evidence that a defendant was observed by a police officer for a minimum of 20 minutes before a breathalyzer test was taken...

Newark Murder and Robbery Charges against Men

Posted on March 27, 2009
According to this recent Newsday report, two Newark men have been arrested and are facing charges for a rash of robberies and criminal homicide in New Jersey of a gas station attendant killed in one of the robberies. Raymond Perry, 43, and David Fate, 24, face felony murder charges in the death of 29-year-old Daniel Pritchard, who worked at a Verona gas station...

New Jersey Accounting Fraud Case Sentences Former Executive

Posted on March 25, 2009
An Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for an accounting fraud scandal, which apparently artificially propped up the stock price of insurer American International Group Inc. According to this news report, Christopher Garand, who served as a senior vice president at Gen Re, was also fined $150,000 and will be under two years of supervised release after the term ends for his role in the case...

New Jersey DWI and Hit-and Run Arrest Of Veteran Police Officer

Posted on March 20, 2009
A veteran officer in the Lower Township Police Department was charged with driving while intoxicated in New Jersey and hit-and-run after he swerved into an oncoming lane of traffic and sideswiped a Transit Bus on Townbank Road near Bayshore Road. According to an NBC news report, authorities followed scrape marks on the street into a home on Crawford Road and found a pickup truck that had heavy front-end damage...

New Jersey Sex Crime Against Minor Charges Man

Posted on March 16, 2009
Police in Rutherford, New Jersey, arrested 40-year-old Cesar Pajares on suspicion of fondling a teenage girl over a three-year period, the Bergen County Record reports. The girl, now 16, apparently told police in February that Pajares fondled her in a Rutherford home while she was between the ages of 13 and 16...

New Jersey Drug Charges Against Arrested Men

Posted on March 13, 2009
Two men in West Milford are facing multiple drug charges in New Jersey after police found 89 bags of heroin in the mens? car. According to this news report, the arrestees were identified as 20-year-old Matthew J. Mercorella and Zachary Van Dunk, 19. Mercorella and Van Dunk were arrested after patrol officers made a traffic stop on Warwick Turnpike for a broken taillight and found the drugs in their Nissan Xterra...

New Jersey Drunk Driving Suspect Arrested

Posted on March 11, 2009
A South River woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in New Jersey and crashing her car, this news Web site reports. Police arrested 40-year-old Iryna Matviyishyn after a passing motorist called a report that a vehicle had driven off Main Street in Milltown into a tree...

Wayne Sex Crime of Prostitution Charges Against Massage Parlor Worker

Posted on March 09, 2009
A massage parlor worker in Wayne is facing prostitution charges, the Bergen County Record reports. The arrest came after a Wayne Police Special Operations Unit and the Passaic County Prosecutor?s Office executed a search warrant at the Eastern Cozy Spa on Hamburg Turnpike...

New Jersey Fraud Accusation Against Residents

Posted on March 06, 2009

Wanaque 14-year-old Charged with Drunk Driving

Posted on March 03, 2009

Runnemede Woman Arrested on Suspicion of DWI

Posted on February 28, 2009

Ocean City Man Arrested On Suspicion of Sexually Assaulting 14-year-old Girl

Posted on February 25, 2009
Police in Ocean City have arrested Gregory Hoyle, a 19-year-old man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, according to this news report. The alleged assault occurred at a Mercer Place home the evening of January 31, 2009. Hoyle has reportedly been charged with sexual assault and is currently been held in Cape May County Jail...

New Jersey High Court Stirs Up DUI Stop Rules

Posted on February 22, 2009
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a person can be stopped on suspicion of drunk driving on the basis of a reliable report that the person was intoxicated. According to a news report in The Star Ledger, the decision was based on a case where a teenager called police and reported that her father had gotten into his car drunk and driven off after an argument with her...

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