by Fred Sisto | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, Monmouth County, Ocean County
In a rare published trial court opinion out of Sussex County, a Law division judge decided the case of State v. K.S. on May 22, 2017. The principle issue in the case is whether a defendant is barred from receiving a Drug Court expungement under N.J.S.A. 35-14(m) when...
by Fred Sisto | May 20, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, Legal Procedures, New Jersey
The New Jersey Supreme Court reviewed the trial courts’ applications of N.J.S.A. 2C:52-2(a) to the expungement petitions of J.S. and G.P.B. de novo. De novo review means that no deference to the lower court’s decisions on questions of law (as opposed to...
by Fred Sisto | May 18, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, Legal Procedures, New Jersey
G.P.B. is a fifty-two-year-old New Jersey resident and business owner, who, on April 19 and 20, 1999, committed several offenses in support of a scheme to offer illegal gifts to local officials in a particular municipality, in order to obtain a public contract for his...
by Fred Sisto | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, Legal Procedures
The New Jersey case that addresses expungement eligibility for multiple offenses is IN THE MATTER OF THE EXPUNGEMENT PETITION OF J.S. and IN THE MATTER OF THE EXPUNGEMENT OF THE CRIMINAL RECORDS OF G.P.B. The New Jersey Supreme Court decided theses consolidated cases...