Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday suspended all in-person trials and grand jury proceedings due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. The order handed down by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner is effective immediately. It’s the second time this year that the pandemic has halted in-person trials…
State v. Kelly Appellate Docket No.: A-2614-18T1 Decided November 9, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In an unpublished opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey upheld a denial of a motion to suppress when an anonymous tip claiming two individuals with a handgun in a car in a high crime area was…
State v. Nyema Appellate Docket No.: A-0891-18T4 Decided November 5, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In a published opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey overturned a denial of a motion to suppress when an officer investigating a robbery pulled over the defendant because three black males were in the car headed…
State v. Williams Appellate Docket No.: A-40 Decided November 2, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In a recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision, the Court, without issuing a written opinion, affirmed a published Appellate Court decision overturning a denial of a motion to suppress when an officer saw weed in a boarding…
State v. Radel Appellate Docket No.: A-2503-18T3 Decided October 20, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In a published opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey reviewed a trial court’s denial of a motion to suppress a firearm found inside a defendant’s home as a result of a protective sweep after defendant was…
State v. Scurry Appellate Docket No.: A-0377-18T1 Decided October 15, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In an unpublished opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey reviewed a trial court’s denial to exclude evidence of a video of the defendant rapping with original lyrics about stealing drugs and shooting someone in the head,…
Appellate Docket No.: A-2454-19T2 Decided October 14, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In an unpublished opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey reviewed a grating of an expungement application for a former municipal court judge that completed PTI after misappropriating fines. In Expungement of R.B.T., R.B.T. was a municipal court judge in…
State v. Decker Appellate Docket No.: A-3928-17T1 Decided September 29, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In an unpublished opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey reviewed a trial court’s denial of defendant’s pretrial motion to dismiss a count of him being a leader of a gun trafficking unit. In State v. Decker,…
State v. Lopez Appellate Docket No.: A-1210-19T1 Decided September 23, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In an unpublished opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey reviewed a jury’s conviction and forty-five year aggregate term of parole ineligibility that included text messages admitted into evidence under the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule.…
New Jersey Supreme Court Established bright line ‘probable cause test” in 2015: State v. Alamilla Appellate Docket No.: A-5952-17T1 Decided September 23, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In an unpublished opinion, the Appellate Division of New Jersey reviewed a trial court’s denial of a motion to suppress 15 soil bags of marijuana…
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Appellate Victory Protects a Former Spouse’s Share of Pension Benefits
Submitted by New Jersey Family Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. A Successful Family Law Appeal Our firm successfully represented the appellant in a New Jersey family law appeal concerning the division of pension benefits after divorce. On October 20, 2026, the Appellate Division reversed the order under review and sent the matter back to the Family Part for…