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On January 29, 2014, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided State v. Derrick Brown, finding that a decrepit house in Camden is not automatically abandoned and the police need a warrant to search the house. In this case, the State Police had been conducting a narcotics investigation of possible drug…
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A troubling case expanded the reach of “official misconduct” to a volunteer firefighter in State v. Quezada, 402 N.J. Super. 277 (App. Div. 2008). This defendant had just begun volunteering as a firefighter with the Prospect Park Volunteer Fire Department in 2003. He started the fire academy in June and…
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Question 20 on the employment application says, “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?” You know that when you mark yes, the job is gone. A person with an expungement may mark … No. Each day that you have a criminal conviction in your past, you are losing opportunities…
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A troubling case expanded the reach of “official misconduct” to a volunteer firefighter in State v. Quezada, 402 N.J. Super. 277 (App. Div. 2008). This defendant had just begun volunteering as a firefighter with the Prospect Park Volunteer Fire Department in 2003. He started the fire academy in June and…
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A unanimous United States Supreme Court ruled that police must obtain a warrant to search the information on a suspect’s cellphone, in Riley vs. California. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the final sentence of the decision to leave no doubt about the instructions from the Supreme Court: “Our answer to the…
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The United State Supreme Court Justices – average age is 68 – just schooled everyone about the quantity of data stored on your cell phone. In Riley vs. California, the Supreme Court ruled that the police need a warrant before searching the data inside a smart phone because the data…
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If you've recently been convicted of a DUI, it's illegal to drive a car while your license is suspen...
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Have you been recently charged with a first DUI offense, and now you're worried about the possibilit...
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