Criminal Law Blog

The Appellate Division continued in relevant part: Gallant handed the blood vials to Officer Knepper. He took them immediately to the Hawthorne Police Headquarters and placed them in an evidence refrigerator. Thereafter, Hawthorne Police Detective Robert King removed...

The three-judge panel continued in relevant part: Defendant's admission that he had consumed five beers and the other observed characteristics of him and the accident scene led the officer to conclude that defendant was intoxicated. The officer...

The Appellate Division continued in relevant part: At about 1:35 a.m. on March 18, 2005, defendant Adam J. Kent lost control of his Lincoln automobile while driving on Rae Avenue in Hawthorne. The Lincoln jumped a curb and flipped over onto its roof, landing in the...

The next case to address confrontation clause issues is the Passaic County case of State v. Kent (App. Div. 2007). Judge Sabatino wrote for the three-judge appellate panel in relevant part: This drunk driving case presents another instance concerning the admissibility...

The Appellate panel continued in relevant part. We likewise reject defendant's claim under Point II that the taking of his blood over his objection violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment. Here, unlike in Ravotto, defendant never expressly refused to give a...

The Appellate panel continued in relevant part: Accordingly, in light of Crawford, Berezansky, and Buda, the decision by the court below dispensing with the opportunity for cross-examination of the nurse who drew defendant's blood cannot be countenanced. We therefore...

The Court continued in relevant part: The State's argument that N.J.S.A. 2A:62A-11 should not be construed to require the State to produce the nurse who drew the blood because of the pragmatic considerations involved in securing such appearance at a trial a...

The Court continued in relevant part: Here, we have no difficulty in finding the certification to be testimonial. If a statement of a child about his injuries is deemed testimonial when the immediate emergency has passed, then certainly a certification prepared for...

The Renshaw Court continued in relevant part: Thus, in Berezansky, while discussing Simbara, we noted the Court's rejection of the argument that a technician's compliance with the procedures of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-19 was a justification for dispensing with the right of...

The three-judge panel continued in relevant part: Next, the State argues that defendant's argument should be rejected because it "ignores the pragmatic approach historically adopted by New Jersey courts on issues of this type." The State points to the statute as a...