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Long Island Doctor Accused of Spying With Hidden Camera

Posted on July 30, 2008
A Long Island doctor is in trouble after police accused him of installing a hidden camera in the bathroom of his medical office, according to this news article. Nassau County police say Vincent Pacienza of North Hills was arrested and charged with unlawful surveillance...

Bridgeton Man Pleads Guilty To Forgery

Posted on July 23, 2008
A 55-year-old Bridgeton man has plead guilty to forgery, after he falsified U.S. bonds worth more than $41,000. According a news report in South Jersey News Online, Rory McCafferty admitted that from May 2005 to March 2006 he forded another man?s signature, used false identification and cashed about 253 bonds at different banks in Bucks County in Pennsylvania...

New Jersey Supreme Court Makes "Bad Law" in Child Abuse Case, Denigrating Our Constitutional Right to Confront Our Accusers (Part 3)

Posted on July 16, 2008
Part 3 of a 3-part series about the Right to Confrontation. By Peter B. Paris ?Testimonial? or ?Non-Testimonial?: That is the Constitutional Question In Crawford, the Court?s key point was that, if the out-of-court statement was ?testimonial,? it cannot be admitted in evidence without an opportunity to cross-examine the person who made the statement...

New Jersey Supreme Court Makes "Bad Law" in Child Abuse Case, Denigrating Our Constitutional Right to Confront Our Accusers (Part 2)

Posted on July 15, 2008
Part 2 of a 3-part series about the Right to Confrontation. By Peter B. Paris The Historical Use of Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule to Erode the Right to Confrontation In 1980, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Ohio v. Roberts, the Right to Confrontation began its twenty-four year decline...

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New Jersey Supreme Court Makes "Bad Law" in Child Abuse Case, Denigrating Our Constitutional Right to Confront Our Accusers (Part 1)

Posted on July 14, 2008
Part 1 of a 3-part series about the Right to Confrontation. By Peter B. Paris There is an old adage in the legal world that warns us, ?BEWARE: Bad facts make bad law.? In other words, sometimes when ?bad facts? occur, like a horrible crime or tragic event, policy-makers react with short-term legal ?fixes? which end up having negative, unintended consequences down the road...

Wrong-Way Driver Could Be Charged With DUI

Posted on July 10, 2008
A 36-year-old Allentown woman is facing drunken driving charges after she operated her vehicle against the flow of traffic on Route 22 in Bethlehem Township and struck a vehicle and injured a driver, the Express-Times reports. Michele L. Leigh crashed her Pontiac minivan into a Ford Mustang driven by Michael L...

Easton Man Faces Felony Driving Under the Influence Charge

Posted on July 03, 2008
A 26-year-old Easton man is facing charges of driving under the influence in connection with a Feb. 21 fatal auto accident in Ross Township. According to this report Dudd Flanagan III was driving a 2007 Hyundai west on Kunkletown Road in Ross Township when the accident happened...

The Milberg Settlement & Dealing With Unfair Stereotypes In The Legal Industry

Posted on June 22, 2008
As a former police officer and current New Jersey litigation attorney, I have worked in two of the most unfairly maligned professions in this nation. As an attorney, I have accepted the fact that unfair stereotypes are simply part of doing business in this day and age...

New Jersey Dog Attack Laws Questioned Following Congo The German Shepard's Euthanization

Posted on June 20, 2008
As New Jersey attorneys who represent victims of dog bites and owners of dogs accused of biting, we feel it is incumbent upon us to comment on the case involving Congo, the Princeton Township German Shepherd that was recently euthanized by its owner and which garnered international attention last year when a Princeton Municipal Court judge ordered Congo to be euthanized, only to be reversed by a settlement with the local prosecutor after massive public outcry...

Princeton?s Lependorf & Silverstein, P.C. welcomes Peter B. Paris to the firm

Posted on June 16, 2008
Peter B. Paris, Stanford Law graduate and President of the Princeton High Class of 1987, returns to his hometown to join longtime friends and colleagues, Gabriel Lependorf and David Silverstein at Princeton?s own Lependorf & Silverstein, P.C. As Peter recalls, ?Gabe and I have talked about joining forces ever since I was in law school and Gabe was in his first law office on Nassau Street...

New Jersey Teen Acquitted Of First-Degree Murder Charge

Posted on June 06, 2008
A Somerset County jury has acquitted a North Plainfield teenager of first degree murder, robbery and felony murder. According to an article in the Star-Ledger, 19-year-old Dionys Rivas was accused of robbing and killing 60-year-old Maximo Castro on April 27, 2005...

5-Year-Old Boy Dies In Queens Street Racing Accident

Posted on May 31, 2008
A 5-year-old boy has died in a tragic hit-and-run auto accident in Queens when two teenagers drag racing in their car hit the sport utility vehicle the boy was riding in, according to a CBS News report. The article states the boy, Jordan McLean, was ejected from his aunt?s SUV after the collision occurred...

Officials Investigate Fatal Heavy Machinery Accident In Plainfield Township

Posted on May 25, 2008
Federal officials are investigating a workplace industrial accident that occurred in Plainfield Township, which killed 60-year-old William H. Edwards, a Monroe County man. According to a news report in The Express Times, Edwards suffered from head trauma after a machine he was working on at RPM Recycling gave way and broke landing on his head...

Dog Owner Whose Pitbull Attacked 5 Says His Dog Was Provoked

Posted on May 23, 2008
The owner of a pit-bull that attacked and bit five people in Parsippany is asking the court to spare his dog saying that the dog attack outside a public library was provoked, the New Jersey Star Ledger reports. The owner also told the municipal judge he was sorry about the injuries his dog caused and that he would build a fence in the interest of public safety to keep the pit-bull within his property on Lake Hiawatha...

Roseto Auto Accident Injures Three

Posted on May 18, 2008
Three Roseto residents were injured in an auto accident in Blairstown Township after an unidentified driver swerved across a double yellow line and forced them off the road, according to an article in the Express Times. The unknown driver, reportedly traveling in a silver-colored vehicle, caused Linda Piperato to go off the road and strike a road sign and utility pole, the article states...

School Administrator Accused of Stealing Prescription Drugs from Nurse?s Office

Posted on May 15, 2008
A Gloucester County middle school administrator is facing charges for stealing students? prescription drugs from his school?s nurses office for his personal use. According to a news report, Philip Bevilaqua, a vice principal at the Gateway Regional Middle School in Woodbury Heights, specifically stole drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall ? medication that is commonly used to treat hyperactivity disorder, but also prescription drugs that are commonly abused...

Former High School Coach Gets 7 Years in Prison For Sexual Assault

Posted on May 11, 2008
A former high school girls? basketball coach who was convicted of sexually assaulting a player has been sentenced to seven years in prison, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. Pamela Balogh, 40, a former coach at Immaculata High School, was found guilty of second-degree sexual assault, third-degree aggravated criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child; and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact...

West Windsor Man Arrested On Suspicion of Driving Under the Influence

Posted on May 07, 2008
Police arrested a 28-year-old West Windsor man on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, crashing his car, then walking away from the scene of the accident. According to this news report, Roman Karvalis lost control of his Honda while driving on Route 1 near Carnegie Center Boulevard...

Bridgeton Teenager Accused Of Drowning and Killing Her Newborn Son

Posted on May 01, 2008
In a tragic Bridgeton case, a local 14-year-old has been charged with murder on suspicion of drowning her newborn baby in the tank of a public restroom during a Cinco de Mayo festival at the Cumberland County Fairgrounds. According to a news article in South Jersey News Online (), the girl not identified because of her age, is already the mother of a 13-month-old and hid this pregnancy from her friends and family...

UNCOUNSELED PRIOR DWI PLEA

Posted on April 25, 2008
On October 10, 2007 a New Jersey Appellate Division panel of Judges decided a DWI appeal that was approved for publication on May 5, 2008. The case involved a DWI charge from Hudson County, New Jersey. The defendant pleaded guilty to a third DWI charge in Municipal Court and was sentenced to 180 days in the Hudson County jail...

Senate Committee to Discuss Reform to New Jersey Worker?s Compensation System

Posted on April 18, 2008
Senator Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen) announced yesterday that the Senate Labor Committee will convene on May 5th to discuss problems with New Jersey?s $1.8 Billion worker?s compensation system, according to a published report in the New Jersey Star Ledger. It was a series of reports in The Star-Ledger that prompted the special hearings...

Police Officer Accused of DUI Pleads Case in Court

Posted on April 14, 2008
A recent article that appeared in the New Jersey Star Ledger illustrates the benefits of having a New Jersey DUI Defense attorney who can prepare a convincing defense using the specifics of the case. Rodney Sanders, 39, was accused of third-degree assault by auto for allegedly causing a three-car crash on Route 22 in North Plainfield on July 31, 2007...

New Jersey Supreme Court Greenlights Alcotest

Posted on April 08, 2008
The verdict came in March 17: The New Jersey Supreme Court has approved the use of the new Alcotest 7110 breath-testing device -- as long as law enforcement and the manufacturer follow certain procedures. Under the court's decision, law enforcement must limit prosecutions to those who test within a certain accuracy range and check Alcotest's accuracy twice a year...

Fifteen-Year-Old DWI Haunts Senate Candidate

Posted on April 02, 2008
A candidate for New Jersey's Senate seat found out last week what New Jersey DWI lawyers have been telling our clients for years: DWI convictions can haunt you long after you thought they were over. Andy Unanue, a businessman who is heir to the family-run Goya Foods corporation, filed papers April 7 to run for Senate as a Republican...

Suspect Arrested A Year After Robbery Incident

Posted on March 24, 2008
In a real world example of the FBI and local authorities finally ?getting their man?, a former Roselle Park resident has been arrested on numerous charges more than a year after the alleged assault of a borough resident who surprised him in the midst of a burglary...

18 Arrests Made In National Drug Ring Bust

Posted on March 20, 2008
Over 14 ounces of cocaine, over 60 grams of marijuana, more then $25,000 in cash, 4 guns and 18 arrests were made in a coordinated pre-dawn raid that shut down a major drug distribution ring that shipped West Coast narcotics to sellers in New Jersey and Delaware...

Speed Limit To Be Cut In Response To Fatal Accident

Posted on March 16, 2008
In a move that will hopefully save lives in the future, the Department of Transportation and Logan Township have agreed to lower the speed limit on a dangerous mile-long stretch of Center Square Road from 45mph to 40mph. The change comes after a fatal New Jersey Auto accident claimed the life of a local teenager earlier this year...

Ex-Suspect Sues Arresting Officer, Township Over Crash

Posted on March 06, 2008
This is an unusual story that draws concerns over the potential liability a motorist can face for injuring a passenger in a New Jersey auto accident, especially when the driver is a public servant performing duties at the time of the crash. Sue Marie Podolski was arrested in the early morning hours of Oct...

Millville Dog Owners To Face Charges After Dog Attack

Posted on March 01, 2008
In an excellent example of the strict liability laws that govern New Jersey Dog Bite attacks, a South Jersey News Online story published January 25th details the specifics of a case in which a dog attack ended with one of the canines being cannibalized by a neighboring dog...

Embezzling Cardiologists Face Prison, Fines

Posted on March 01, 2008
Two New Jersey cardiologists who took nearly $900,000 through so-called ?no-show? jobs at the New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry are facing $250,000 in fines and up to ten years in prison each for their embezzlement. The doctors, Bakul Desai, and Laxmipathi Garipalli, were each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for their jobs, which required them to do nothing whatsoever...

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