Archive for May 2010

An officer is allowed to open the door of a vehicle as part of ordering an occupant of the vehicle to exit when facts in the totality of the circumstances create a heightened sense of danger in the officer. This holding is an extension of the holding in State v. Smith, 134 N.J. 599 (1994),…

On April 29, 2010 the New Jersey Appellate Division decided in the case of Voss v. Tranquilino, that a guilty plea or conviction at trial for a DWI does not bar the intoxicated driver from filing a dram shop suit against the tavern that served him execssive intoxicating liquor. The court addressed the conflict between…