Recovery and Relapse Reprinted from the White Booklet Narcotics Anonymous This is NA Fellowship-approved literature. Copyright © 1976, 1986 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Submitted by New Jersey Drug Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark Many people think that recovery is simply a matter of not using drugs. They consider a relapse a…
Twenty-one convicted, non-violent felons found their dignity and a renewed purpose without going to jail. By Matt Skoufalos Submitted by New Jersey Drug Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark Drug Court graduates. Credit: Matt Skoufalos. “It’s a shame you have to pick up a felony to get into drug court,” said Camden County Assistant Deputy Public Defender Daniel…
Submitted by New Jersey Drug Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark By bringing in treatment advocates at the point of arrest, Gloucester Township Police have reduced recidivism rates for drug crimes and built a program ready to expand county-wide. By Matt Skoufalos | September 1, 2016 Gloucester Township Police vehicle. Credit: Matt Skoufalos. Focusing on “third-gear” policing…
Begun in 2014 in Gloucester Township, where crime has fallen 34 percent since its rollout, the ‘third-gear policing’ project provides counseling interventions for people charged in addictions-related cases. Submitted by New Jersey Drug Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark Camden County saw 277 overdose deaths last year, and has logged 231 so far in 2018. Nationally, overdoses…
The county is launching a one-year pilot program in which advocates will be placed in municipal courtrooms to help low level drug offenders. Submitted by New Jersey Drug Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — A drug treatment program Gloucester Township has been using since 2014 is now being tested as a pilot program…
In this case the defendant, a senior at a private charter school in Camden city received an Instagram message From the middle school guidance counselor at the same school. The defendant filed a motion to dismiss the prosecution as being “de minimus “ as per N. J. S. A. 2C:2- 11 D and C. STATE…
State v. Browne Docket No. A-0371-17T1 Issue: The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in granting the State’s pretrial application to obtain a buccal swab from the defendant to extract a sample of his DNA. Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. Facts: At approximately 1:00 a.m. on April 19,…
Adequate probable cause found by trial court and affirmed on appeal when police officer directly observed the defendant involved in a drug transaction. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, v. DARRELL M. HALL, SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION Decided September 18, 2019 Mercer County, Indictment No. 15-04-0554. Submitted by New Jersey Drug Crime Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark.…
A.M.V ., v. F.T., SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION September 19, 2019. Appellate Court affirms finding of domestic violence without trial court analyzing 2nd prong of Silver v. Silver because of ‘inherent’ violence of a shove alone without concern for the ‘risk of future harm’! Submitted by New Jersey Domestic Violence Lawyer,…
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. WILLIAM S. BING, SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark Decided September 16, 2019 Issue: Defendant appeals the denial of his pretrial intervention (PTI) application. Finding no ground that would permit judicial intervention into that prosecutorial determination, we affirm. Facts: Defendant was indicted…