A former New Jersey Superior Court judge brought a federal lawsuit against the state’s court system, claiming she was wrongly suspended without pay for nearly five years based on a “misguided” criminal prosecution that resulted in charges against her being dropped.
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Covid-19 numbers are up again in the Garden State, where the death rate from the virus now ranks as the worst in the country.
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A New Jersey state appeals court overturned a man’s assault conviction as unjust after the trial court refused to allow the jury to see a cellphone video of the defendant’s family’s interaction with police at the scene of the crime. The video directly rebutted the prosecutor’s claim that family members lied about their attempt to speak to the police, and contradicted police claims that they thoroughly canvassed the area for witnesses.
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Authorities on Wednesday searched for a man wanted for questioning in a homicide in New Jersey and in the slayings of four people whose bodies were found inside a vehicle parked in a New Mexico airport garage.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — When a traveler became stricken at Newark Liberty International Airport, the police got an assist from
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The panel voiced reluctance about giving police an exemption not available to other professions when it comes to keeping their misconduct quiet.
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Cutting off gas companies from $40 billion worth of natural gas reserves, the governors of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware moved Thursday to safeguard a channel that provides drinking water for millions.
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Two weeks after news of the singer’s arrest made his Super Bowl spot that much more awkward, prosecutors settled on a $500 fine and dropped the major charges.
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A spot on the Atlantic City Boardwalk where movie stars, athletes and rock stars used to party — and a future president honed his instincts for bravado and hype — was reduced to a smoking pile of rubble on Wednesday.
Read moreDefendants who have been in pre-trial detention for at least six months and meet certain requirements have the right to reopen their detention hearings, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in a dispute brought by the Office of the Public Defender and the ACLU relating to the impact of Covid-19 and the suspension of in-person criminal jury trials. The court directed trial judges to conduct the reopened hearings “on an expedited basis.”
Read moreAn appeals court in New Jersey ruled that a man should have access to the trade secrets of TrueAllele, a probabilistic genotyping software that was used to link his DNA to a murder and other crimes, finding that it is “imperitive” to afford a meaningful examination of the source code, which could contain bugs, glitches or defects.
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On what might have been in a snow day before the Zoom age, the New Jersey Supreme Court waded into a lawsuit that says property owners have a duty to keep sidewalks safe even while a storm is still raging.
Read moreThe New Jersey Supreme Court ruled a man convicted of robbing a bank is entitled to a new trial because a prosecutor improperly used a PowerPoint slide with a photo from the movie “The Shining,” featuring the “Here’s Johnny!” scene, in order to show that non-threatening language can be threatening in context.
Read moreDouble jeopardy would not be violated by a retrial of defendants accused of murdering one of their husbands and hiding the body, an appeals court in New Jersey ruled. The trial judge initially declared a mistrial because the trial was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreAwaiting a trial where he has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, John Formisano, the police lieutenant who killed his wife, shot her boyfriend and left him for dead, was hit Tuesday with civil claims.
Read moreIn light of its recent ruling in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts in Colorado and New Jersey must reconsider the states’ Covid-19-related restrictions on indoor religious services.
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A leading firearms manufacturer alleges New Jersey is engaged in an “unconstitutional fishing expedition” to try to curtail gun rights by using a new tactic: false advertising claims.
Read moreAn appeals court in New Jersey reversed a ruling in favor of a Catholic school, which allegedly fired an unmarried teacher after discovering she was pregnant. Knowledge of the teacher’s pregnancy alone is not a basis to determine whether she violated the school’s moral code.
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