Archive for April 2014
Grant of PTI to Embezzling Lawyer To Help Pay Back Victims Reversed
A trial court’s grant of pretrial intervention to a N.J. lawyer who admitted misappropriating $100,000 from investors—explicitly so that he could keep working to pay them back—didn’t stand up on appeal. The judge’s decision that letting Middletown solo Philip Leone stay out of jail would be in the best interests of his creditors was predicated…
Read MoreNo Compensation for Worker Hurt Crossing Street From Company Lot
A worker hit by a car while crossing the street to her office from a garage where her employer provided parking was not injured on the job, the New Jersey Supreme Court says. Overturning a workers’ compensation award, the justices said the garage was not under the employer’s control, despite its renting of parking spaces…
Read MoreSOCIAL SERVICES LAW | WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
62-1-3344 Hersh v. County of Morris, Sup. Ct. (Fernandez-Vina, J.) (23 pp.) Because the County did not control the garage where Hersh parked, the route of ingress and egress from the parking garage to her office, or the public street where she was injured, and did not expose her to any special or additional hazards,…
Read MorePolice Confront Rising Number of Mentally Ill Suspects
By FERNANDA SANTOS and ERICA GOODE APRIL 1, 2014 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark ALBUQUERQUE — James Boyd, a homeless man camping in the Sandia Foothills here, could hear the commands of the police officers who were trying to move him out. The problem was that Mr. Boyd, 38, had a history…
Read MoreAt Trial, Queens Doctor Is Accused of Recklessly Prescribing Drugs
Physician Arrested After Prescribing Pain Killers Republished by New Jersey Medical License Defense Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. One patient was found dead in his bed from an overdose, with a prescription for painkillers from a Queens doctor on the night stand. Another was discovered lifeless and slumped over in his car, a pill bottle naming the…
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