Issue: The ability of the police dog to testify, and what the state need to do to insure that the police dog’s actions can be testified to by his handler. Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark Facts: At the suppression hearing, the arresting officer testified he stopped defendant in August 2016 because…
DWI/DUI charges to substantially increases in NJ with legalized weed. — State representatives push for more DREs to become ‘experts for DWI’ DUI charges in NJ” Submitted by New Jersey DWI Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. With Democrats who lead the state Senate still tantalizingly short of votes needed to legalize recreational marijuana in New Jersey, a…
Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark LOGAN TWP., N.J. (WPVI) — Multiple police agencies and the FBI are responding to an active shooter situation at a UPS facility in Gloucester County, New Jersey. The incident was reported around 9 a.m. Monday on Birchcreek Road in Logan Township. This map shows the location of…
Philadelphia Contributionship vs. Ryan, Inc. New Jersey Appellate Division Unreported Decision decided January 9, 2019 Submitted by New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. Facts: Defendant is a fuel oil company that provided fuel for the oil-fired furnace located in the home of David Munz. Defendant also serviced the furnace for many years. Approximately one month before December…
Submitted by New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In New Jersey if you were involved in a motor vehicle crash and purchased “verbal threshold” or “limited tort” insurance coverage you have to prove by way of sufficient objective credible medical evidence that you suffer a permanent injury. This is true whether you are in…
Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark On January 8, 2019 New Jersey Supreme Court takes an additional steps towards reforming the criminal justice system with this decision addressing New Jersey’s 2016 revisions to their expungement statute and applications for expungements for defendants who have successfully completed drug court. Relying on the 2016 revisions…
State v. Nurse , N.J. Super. App. Div. January 3, 2019 The police love the Video Surveillance from cameras near by used as evidence, and social media friendship, text evidence and photos from texts used as evidence. Does New Jersey’s Henderson identification procedure apply to a case with video surveillance? Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer,…
STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. LEE M. TRAVERS, Decided January 2, 2019 New Jersey Appellate Divsion Issue in this case to be addressed: Plain view of a gun found in a car—— What is “plain view”? FACTS: The facts here are key— because the police were called to the Toms River Ocean County scene and were told about the…
Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today signed a package of common-sense gun safety bills that make New Jersey among the states with the strongest and most formidable gun laws in the nation. More than 2,000 shootings occur annually in New Jersey, with around 500 firearm-related deaths…
Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In light of our remand on these grounds, we further request the motion judge to reexamine whether the police had the right at the scene of the motor vehicle stop – after arresting and handcuffing defendant – to ask him to consent to a search of his residence…