On August 21, 2014, the Hillside Board of Education (Union County) agreed to pay $100,000 to its former security chief who sued the Board, Superintendent Thomas M. Kane and Business Administrator Kenneth R. Weinheimer and all the individual Board members claiming that he was fired because he is a white male. In his suit, John […]
After a decade of appeals, the third time’s a charm for Somerset Prosecutor.
In an unpublished opinion released today, March 31, 2015, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court affirmed a conviction against Raymond R. Martin for selling a Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office undercover detective $80 worth of crack cocaine on March 31, 2005 and another $200 worth of the same substance on April 19, 2005. […]
Mantua pays $75,000 to settle police excessive force lawsuit.
On February 9, 2015, the Township of Mantua (Gloucester County) agreed to pay $75,000 to the estate of local man who alleged that members of the Mantua Police Department fractured his spine by knocking him down and then kicking him while he was laying on the ground. (According to a South Jersey Times obituary the […]
South Jersey Regional Municipal Court used superseded code numbers to register violations.
The following letter delives into the the inside baseball (i.e. inner workings) of the municipal court system. It might not be of interest to many people, but the problem that I’m addressing has the potential of allowing municipal courts to continue convicting people of offenses even after the municipal governing body has repealed the ordinance […]
An ordinance for all seasons. All types of illegal conduct fit into a South Jersey Township’s vague proscription.
The Township of Upper Deerfield (Cumberland County) has Ordinance §259-3 (formerly §67-3) on the books entitled “Offenses against peace, safety and morals.” §259-3 states, in its entirety: It shall be unlawful for any person to commit an offense against the public peace, safety and morals, as defined herein. Elsewhere, the code defines “public peace, safety […]