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Embezzling Cardiologists Face Prison, Fines

Posted on February 28, 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...

Officer Sentenced to 11 Years In Prison After Fatal DUI Crash

Posted on February 21, 2008
After killing a 2-year-old child and leaving his mother in a vegetative state, Jersey City police officer Kevin Freibott will face 11 years in prison. It is estimated that Freibott?s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was more than three times the legal limit of 0...

Man Accused of Leaving Accident After Driving While Intoxicated

Posted on February 19, 2008
A Garwood Borough resident was arrested on January 29th on charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident, according to an associated press report published Wednesday, January 30th. Ronald J. Ciuba, 39 was charged by Officer Todd Herz with leaving the scene of an accident, careless and intoxicated driving, and having no insurance...

Gym Teacher, 4 Accomplices Arrested On Drug Charges

Posted on February 14, 2008
In an alarming example of the proximity of the ever growing drug culture and our school system, a gym teacher from Lacey Township Middle School has been arrested along with four other men on cocaine and illegal steroid charges, according to a Star Ledger report published Thursday, February 7th...

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Acquittal by Reason of Insanity

Posted on February 13, 2008
New Jersey?s Code of Criminal Justice provides an Insanity Defense for criminal defendants. Section 2C:4-1 governs this defense. The defense is an affirmative defense which means that the burden of proof standard that typically must be met by the prosecution is shifted to the defense, and the defense must prove an insanity defense by a preponderance of the evidence...

SEARCH WARRANT INSUFFICIENT

Posted on February 12, 2008
On January 29, 2008 the New Jersey Appellate Division in State v. Marshall decided that the trial judge erred in denying a suppression motion with regard to a search warrant that was issued without sufficient specificity. The police were investigating Allen Daniels, a suspected New Jersey drug dealer...

Breathalyzer Debate Leaves New Jersey DWI Cases in Question

Posted on February 08, 2008
As the argument about New Jersey breathalyzers heads to the Supreme Court, thousands of New Jersey DWI cases are now in limbo. As reported previously on this blog, the Alcotest is headed to the Supreme Court to determine its reliability in measuring blood alcohol content (BAC) levels...

New Jersey Death Row Closure ? What Now?

Posted on February 05, 2008
New Jersey?s controversial decision to replace the death sentence with life without parole has taken on a new face as the state closes its death row and transitions prisoners to other parts of jail. It?s also confused New Jersey residents, some of whom are still reporting on death row cases and who misunderstand what has become of the six men who sat on New Jerseys? death row prior to last month?s ban on lethal injection in the state...

New Jersey Judge Faces Heavy Consequences in DWI Case

Posted on February 01, 2008
You may remember our previous post on a New Jersey Municipal Court judge who found himself on the wrong side of the law in November has pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated (DWI) and making threats to an officer. George R. Korpita was pulled over by a Roxbury policeman after a concerned motorist called the police...

Will MySpace Reporting Help Protect Kids?

Posted on January 29, 2008
With recent news about New Jersey and other states brokering a cooperation deal with MySpace to help protect kids from online predators come questions. Will MySpace reporting really help protect kids? Or will it just provide another venue for false accusation and entrapment? Given the recent national hysteria about New Jersey sexual predators, including the wildly popular Dateline ?To Catch a Predator? series, the answer is not yet clear...

Fatal Crash: Driver Was Drunk, Speeding, and on the Phone

Posted on January 25, 2008
The incident sounds outrageous, but injury is now a devastating reality for one man, who suffered a severed leg and a broken leg after he was hit by a woman who was driving under the influence, talking on a cell phone, and speeding. Carlos Varela, who works for Roselle Suburban Sanitation, was hit by Dawn Davis, who pinned him to her truck...

New Jersey Body Snatcher Will Plead Guilty

Posted on January 22, 2008
In a case that reveals the vital importance of the right legal strategy and criminal defense attorney, New Jersey man Michael Mastromarino has agreed to plead guilty to charges connected to an expensive criminal operation in which body parts were stolen from corpses, then sold...

Alcotest Not Much Improvement Over Breathalyzer

Posted on December 20, 2007
An investigator appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court believes a new breath-testing device for DWI cases is reliable, reports the Associated Press. Retired Judge Michael Patrick King was appointed to investigate Alcotest?s accuracy after lawsuits brought by 18 DWI defendants claimed the device hadn?t been tested properly...

State Legislature Likely to Ban the Death Penalty

Posted on December 19, 2007
New Jersey is buzzing this week about the state legislature?s vote on whether to ban capital punishment. The state Senate has already voted in favor of the ban; the Assembly and Gov. Corzine are expected to follow suit. They?re following a national trend: The U...

Meter Maid Charged With Obstructing Police

Posted on December 18, 2007
A parking enforcement officer from Bayonne was criminally charged on Dec. 7 when her job interfered with police detectives? job, reports the Jersey Journal. Two police detectives were staking out a narcotics suspect in an unmarked car parked at a meter when the officer, Susan Wojtkowski, began writing them a ticket...

Drunk Driving Charge For Roxbury Judge

Posted on December 04, 2007
Police arrested Municipal Court Judge George Korpita Jr, recently in Roxbury on charges of drunk driving. According to an online article that appears on the Star-Ledger?s Web site , Korpita, 47, a resident of Lake Hopatcong, was in the Ledgewood section of Roxbury Township, driving in a black Chrysler sedan on Route 46 West, when authorities stopped him...

Sparta Township School Teacher Arrested For Sex Crimes

Posted on November 30, 2007
http://www.lependorfsilverstein.com/lewd-conduct.shtmlPolice arrested a math teacher from the Vo-Tech School in Sussex County for allegedly having sexual relations with two students. The New Jersey Herald, in an online article reported recently that Richard Koppenaal a resident of Frankford Township was being held on suspicion of having illegal sexual relations and sexual contact with two of the high school?s students over the course of the last two years...

Teacher?s Aide Charged With Possession Of Child Pornography

Posted on November 28, 2007
A Phillipsburg Middle School teacher?s aide is under investigation after he was charged with possession of child pornography. Detectives took James Leonarczyk?s personal computer from his home, according to a news report in the New Jersey Star-Ledger...

Driver Makes Bomb Threat To Elude Arrest Warrant On Drug Charges

Posted on November 26, 2007
This story is a great example of how you can dig a hole 10 times deeper than the one you?re already in. Instead of hiring a competent New Jersey defense attorney to get him out of trouble and get the help he needs, Kyle Lewthwaite decided to do something he thought was very smart...

New Jersey Must Do Away With the Death Penalty

Posted on November 21, 2007
New Jersey lawmakers are poised to make an historical decision next month ? on whether to do away with the death penalty. If the legislature is in agreement, New Jersey will be the first state in the United States to abolish capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976...

New Jersey Woman Faces Vehicular Homicide Charge In Five-Car Wreck

Posted on October 19, 2007
A 51-year-old Haskell woman, who is facing drunk driving charges in connection with a fiery crash that killed a New York couple on Aug. 19, is now facing vehicular homicide charges, according to a news report in the New Jersey Herald . Officials said Kathleen Sullivan was under the influence of alcohol when she caused a chain reaction crash that send Keey and Cynthia Felski?s Ford Explorer airborne and injured the couple fatally...

Bloomfield Doctor To Face Additional Sex Crime Charges

Posted on October 17, 2007
A New Jersey doctor, already being accused of sexually assaulting 10 female patients, could face additional charges on suspicion of abusing more women in his care, according to a news report in the New York Times . According to the report, 64-year-old Raymond P...

New Jersey Cop Charged With DWI And Assault By Autos

Posted on October 15, 2007
A police officer in Plainfield is in trouble after he reportedly crashed into two other vehicles while he was driving drunk on the highway. According to a news report in the The Star Ledger 38-year-old Rodney Sanders has been charged with third-degree assault by auto in the July 31 incident...

New Jersey Man Charged With Drug Crimes And Vehicle Code Violations

Posted on October 11, 2007
Police stopped a Willingboro man early morning Sept. 19 on Route 1 because officers say he was speeding at 75 mph. But according to a crime blog in The Times of Trenton police officers smelled something else in his vehicle ? burning marijuana. David Williams, 24 was arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia and faces speeding and other motor vehicle code violations, the article states...

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