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January 13, 2025 | New Jersey Law Journal

Bar Report - Jan. 13

A week before taking the bar exam in summer 1981, doctors gave James E. Trabilsy a grim prescription usually reserved for a patient more than twice his age.

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June 17, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Bar Report — June 17, 2024

The NJSBA's weekly report.

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July 17, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

Bar Report - July 17, 2023

NJ Commission on Professionalism presents annual awards to three exemplary attorneys, dozens more recognized as Professional Lawyer of the Year The…

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State v. Rivas

Publication Date: 2022-07-04
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Albin
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Smith, Jr., Assistant Deputy Public Defender (Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney; James K. Smith, Jr., of counsel and on the briefs)
for defendant: Regina M. Oberholzer, Deputy Attorney General (Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General, attorney; Regina M. Oberholzer, of counsel and on the briefs)
Case Number: A-15-21 (086051)

Potential Invocation of Right to Counsel Tainted Defendant's Confessions Where Police Did Not Cease Questioning or Confirm Defendant's Intentions

State v. Sims

Publication Date: 2022-04-04
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Patterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monica do Outeiro, Special Deputy Attorney General/Acting Assistant Prosecutor (Lori Linskey, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor, attorney; Maura K. Tully, Assistant Prosecutor, of counsel and on the briefs)
for defendant: Rochelle M. Watson, Deputy Public Defender II (Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney; Rochelle M. Watson, and Robert Carter Pierce, Designated Counsel, on the briefs)
Case Number: A-53-20 (085369)

Officers Not Required by to Inform Suspect of Charges They Predict Might Be Filed

State v. Ryan

Publication Date: 2022-02-21
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Solomon
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Smith, Jr. (Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney; James K. Smith, Jr., of counsel and on the briefs)
for defendant: Daniel A. Finkelstein, Deputy Attorney General (Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General, attorney; Daniel A. Finkelstein, of counsel and on the briefs)
Case Number: a_65_20_020722

Because Three Strikes Law Was Merely Enhancement on Most Current Offense, Use of Prior Juvenile Conviction as Predicate Offense Was Constitutional

State v. Gonzalez

Publication Date: 2022-02-21
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Solomon
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Margaret McLane, Assistant Deputy Public Defender (Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney; Margaret McLane, of counsel and on the briefs, and Richard Sparaco, Designated Counsel, on the briefs)
for defendant: Steven K. Cuttonaro, Deputy Attorney General (Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General, attorney; Steven K. Cuttonaro, of counsel and on the briefs, and Paul H. Heinzel, Assistant Somerset County Prosecutor, on the briefs)
Case Number: lisab

Statements Should Have Been Suppressed Where Suspect Made Ambiguous Invocation of Counsel, Requiring Investigators to Confirm Whether Suspect Wanted Counsel

State v. Anderson

Publication Date: 2021-08-23
Practice Area: Employment Compliance
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LaVecchia
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nirmalan Nagulendran (Miller, Meyerson & Corbo, attorneys; Nirmalan Nagulendran and Gerald D. Miller, on the briefs)
for defendant: Lauren Bonfiglio, Deputy Attorney General (Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General, attorney; Steven K. Cuttonaro, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the briefs)
Case Number: A-15/16-20 (084365)

Forfeiture of Public Pension Not a Fine Where Benefits Conditioned Upon Honorable Service, Meaning Employees Who Committed Offenses Had No Property Interest

Maison v. New Jersey Transit Corp.

Publication Date: 2021-03-01
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Albin
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Vannella, Assistant Attorney General (Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General, attorney; Melissa H. Raksa, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel, and Daniel M. Vannella, on the briefs)
for defendant: K. Raja Bhattacharya (Bendit Weinstock, attorneys; K. Raja Bhattacharya and Sherri Davis Fowler, on the briefs)
Case Number: A-34/35-19 (08384)

NJ Transit Subject to the Heightened Duty of Care Applicable to Common Carriers

State v. Brown

Publication Date: 2021-02-08
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LaVecchia
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer E. Kmieciak, Deputy Attorney General (Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General, attorney; Jennifer E. Kmieciak, of counsel and on the briefs)
for defendant: James K. Smith, Jr., Assistant Deputy Public Defender (Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney; James K. Smith, Jr., of counsel and on the briefs)
Case Number: A-39-19 (083353)

Increasing Grading for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Did Not Constitute Ex Post Facto Violation