Court Rules One Does Not Have a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Sent Text Messages Seized from Recipient’s Phone

In State v. Armstrong, a case arising out of Essex County, Defendant pled guilty during trial to aggravated manslaughter. The victim was the boyfriend of

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NJ Court Reaffirms Prior Rulings That Knowledge of Race and Gender of an Alleged Actor Does Not Establish Reasonable Suspicion for a Car Stop

In State v. Peter Nyema, police officers seized evidence of a robbery following an investigatory stop of an automobile in which Defendant was a passenger. Following

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NJ Supreme Court Rules Residents of a Boarding or Rooming House Have a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in the Common Areas of Those Homes

In State v. Williams, the Court found that the common areas of boarding and rooming houses are not open to the public, and that the

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NJ Appellate Court Rules Potential for Federal Deportation Cannot Be Used by State Prosecutors to Argue for Detention Pending Trial

In State v. Juan Molchor, a New Jersey Appellate panel ruled that it was inappropriate for State Court’s to detain individuals based on the fact

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NJ Appellate Court Rules Endangering the Welfare of a Child Cannot Be Expunged

In State v. N.T., Defendant filed a petition for the expungement of all records relating to her arrest and conviction for third-degree endangering the welfare

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Prosecutors Cannot Condition Entry into Pre-trial Intervention on Defendants Agreeing to Jail Time

In a recent  decision stemming from a Middlesex County case an appellate panel ruled that three Rutgers Fraternity Brothers were improperly denied admission to the Pre-Trial

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