The Officer Must Be Lawfully Present for the Plain View Exception to a Warrant Requirement:

November 3, 2020

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…

Plain view of a gun found in a car — What is “plain view”?

January 8, 2019

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. LEE M. TRAVERS,  Decided January 2, 2019 New Jersey Appellate Divsion Issue in this case to be addressed:  Plain view of a gun found in a car—— What is “plain view”? FACTS:   The facts here are key— because the police were called to the Toms River Ocean County scene and were told about the…