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Criminal Defense Strategies in NJ A criminal charge can significantly affect your life. It can lead to felony charges, jail time, and expensive fines, and it can also present challenges when seeking employment following incarceration. Fortunately, because of how the United States legal system is designed, there must be proof that you committed the criminal crime without any reasonable doubt.…
Consequences of Conviction When someone has been arrested and is facing criminal charges, it can be a very scary process. Getting something on your permanent records, facing jail time, losing a driver’s license, paying heavy fines, all of these can seriously negatively affect someone’s life. Whether the individual is guilty of the crime or not, having a quality defense attorney…
Police officers are generally seen as the keepers of the peace and beacons of justice, but even these prestigious men and women are subject to breaking the law occasionally. When a police officer uses his or her position of authority to commit civil rights violations, there is legal recourse for victims. Although the road is complex and challenging, victims can…
While the terms theft and robbery are often used interchangeably outside of the criminal justice field, these two offenses differ in many respects. If you have been charged with either of these crimes, then it’s important to understand these differences and what they mean in the event you are found guilty in court. Explaining Theft Theft is a very broad term that…
On April 13, 2018, New Jersey State Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced his intention to convene a panel to discuss the potential creation of a new criminal investigative unit called the conviction review unit. This announcement came after the New Jersey Superior Court overturned two Passaic County 1996 murder convictions. In that case, exculpatory DNA evidence was discovered linking…
Six of the eight men who allegedly took part in a gang-related stabbing death of a Belmont teen arrived in New York to face a judge for their suspected crimes after their extradition from New Jersey. The story of the tragic incident went viral due to the graphic surveillance video that was taken of the brutal attack of a 15-year-old…
Ex-offenders in New Jersey are finally getting a fair chance at getting minor crimes taken off of their criminal records in order to help give them a clean start. As the result of bipartisan legislation signed by Governor Chris Christie, this past December, the rules surrounding who can request to get their records expunged, how soon they can apply to do…
It is no secret that how law enforcement handles individuals during arrests has had a giant light shining on it in recent years. Between cell phones, police dash cams, and body cams and the way videos go viral, the subject of police brutality is under constant scrutiny. The topic is national but touches locally often. Recently, in New Jersey, a man is…
The state Appellate Division recently ruled that a Vineland man who faces five years in prison will receive a new trial, according to a recent article at NJ.com. The man was convicted of heroin possession in 2015, after being arrested in May 2014 after a routine traffic stop. During the booking process, police claimed they found 21 wax folds of…
A number of individual diagnostic centers had perpetrated a fraud on Medicare that was stopped when a whistleblower that worked at one of the companies came forward to the fraudulent practices that were going on at the centers. This scheme defrauded Medicare out of a large amount of money and resulted in a large recovery of money that the whistleblower…