Posts Tagged ‘police misconduct’
Videos Required In New Jersey on all New Police Patrol Vehicles
Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark A law requiring all new municipal police patrol vehicles be equipped with video cameras was signed into law on Wednesday, Assemblyman Paul Moriarty (D-4 of Washington Township) said. Moriarty, who sponsored the bill after an in-car camera captured his 2012 DWI arrest and provided evidence that lead to a dismissal…
Read MoreState v. Salladino: Impact on New Jersey Criminal Law and Admission of Evidence
14-2-1436 State v. Salladino, App. Div. (per curiam) (13 pp.) On today’s date the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that under the totality of the circumstances the seizure of the “hard bulge” from somewhere on defendant’s person exceeded the permissible scope of a Terry search for weapons and was thus unlawful. The appellate panel agrees…
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