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11 Jun 2010, 2:29 pm by George
New Jersey It’s against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 4:42 am
"The 23 defendants awaiting trial on capital murder charges in New Jersey landed a reprieve of sorts last month, when the state legislature abolished the death penalty, says the Newark Star-Ledger. [read post]
2 May 2013, 8:38 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
King might say, the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice -- Maryland is the sixth state in six years to repeal the death penalty, joining New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Illinois and Connecticut. [read post]
2 Jan 2007, 10:34 am
As Karl Keys predicted, the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission has issued its report, calling for replacing the state's death penalty with the sentence of life without parole. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 4:33 am
"Much more recently in the United States, Subtopia informs us, floating prisons have been met with less than enthusiastic welcomes from federal authorities, though New York City still operates a jail ship at Rikers Island:during the early 90's when New York City, aiming to fix its overcrowded prison problems, built a "five-story jail barge" -- the Bain -- as big as two football fields, to store 800 prisoners, that was at one… [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 2:55 am by Walter Olson
Despite the fact that Aitken owned the guns legally and had called the New Jersey State Police for advice on how to legally transport his firearms, he found himself sentenced to seven years in prison. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 1:51 pm by Senate Republicans
Michael Testa said all state residents should take note of a statement by the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association president warning members against off-duty recreational use of marijuana. ( CC0 Public Domain) “If the very people who enforce our laws in New Jersey are concerned about the many legal ramifications for recreational pot use by their members, it should give us all pause. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 9:36 am
Second-degree crimes carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in state prison and a fine of $150,000. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 6:21 am by Donald Barbati
The issues encountered by the Federal Bureau of Prisons will surely arise, if they have not already, in New Jersey, both on the State and local level. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 7:30 am
In New Jersey, we have two diversionary programs authorized by the state attorney general: curbside warnings and stationhouse adjustments. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 3:51 am
"A month after New Jersey became the first state in decades to abolish the death penalty, a majority of Maryland voters do not support a similar repeal, says a survey commissioned by the Baltimore Sun. [read post]
1 Dec 2013, 9:16 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 168481 (D NJ, Nov. 25, 2013), a New Jersey federal district court dismissed, with leave to amend, a Muslim pre-trial detainee's complaint that his jail provided Muslim inmates a vegetarian diet, but would not provide them a diet with Halal/Kosher meat.In Jenkins v. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 12:44 am
. -- The state Senate approved legislation Monday thatwould make New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penaltysince 1976, when the U.S. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 8:31 am by Peter Howard Tilem
The Assault Weapon Ban which was passed as both a federal law and State law in many jurisdictions after a swell of media hysteria and which has since elapsed as a Federal ban is still alive and well in New York and New Jersey and a recent amendment to New York law has left a dangerous trap for innocent New Yorkers. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 1:22 pm
Nearly a dozen public officials have been arrested and federally charged in a widespread New Jersey political corruption ring featuring prominent state and city lawmakers as well as top school board officials. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 1:35 pm by SHG
Specifically, in appointing the Special Master, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered a review of the legal standard for the admissibility of eyewitness testimony known as the “Manson test,” established by the United States Supreme Court in 1977 and fully embraced by 48 out of 50 states, including New Jersey in 1988 in State v. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Duncan Hunter Gets 11 Months in Prison for Campaign Finance Violations” by Morgan Cook and Greg Moran (San Diego Union-Tribune) for Los AngelesTimes California: “‘Team Newport’ Pays $27,000 to Settle with State Over Allegations of Campaign Finance Disclosure Violations” by Hillary Davis for Los Angeles Times New Jersey: “Controversial N.J. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 12:58 am
For instance, the State of New Jersey has not executed an inmate on death row since 1976. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 7:04 am by Anthony J. Vecchio
"Rahgeam Jenkins, an inmate at New Jersey State Prison, appeals from the final decision of the Department of Corrections (DOC) finding him guilty of disciplinary infraction *.011, which is defined in N.J.A.C. 10A:4-4.1 as 'possession or exhibition of anything related to a security threat group.' He challenges the regulation as unconstitutionally vague and the sufficiency of the evidence against him.... [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 3:57 am by Brad Schnure
” Alex Zdan from News 12 New Jersey broke the news last night that the Murphy administration will release 260 inmates from state prisons today under a pandemic early release policy. [read post]