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1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY V. WILLIAM J. KANE -- rank: 1000

... in the Manville Municipal Court for disrupting a public meeting ( N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8 and $750 for violation of N.J.S.A. 2C ... they affect defendant's conviction for disturbing a public meeting.      N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8 reads as follows: A person commits a disorderly persons offense ... speech. [Cannel, New Jersey Criminal Code Annotated , comment 2 on N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8 (1997) (referring to Commission Commentary).]     There are no reported decisions construing N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8. However, there are two reported cases which applied its predecessor ... Super. at 425.     These cases clearly establish the constitutionality of N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8. In that respect, they are consistent with the holdings of ... Order ." 464 P. 2d at 147. In order to sustain N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8 against a First Amendment challenge, we hold that defendant' ...

docket:	a4531-95
court:	njappellate
decided:	1997-07-16
status:	published
citation:	303 N.J.Super. 167
Document Size:	40610

2 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. HENRY L. CHARZEWSKI, -- rank: 860

... novo on the record in the Law Division, of violating N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8. That statute provides:         A person commits a disorderly persons offense ... brought by a police officer who was at the meeting.      N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8, as a criminal statute and, particularly, as a criminal statute ... Super. 167 (App. Div. 1997), we upheld the constitutionality of N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8, and defendant does not now ask us to revisit that ... determination. Kane is the only reported decision that has addressed N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8, and it is of limited applicability to the present case ... We did not mean to imply that the test under N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8 is the chair's subjective view of whether conduct is ... the statute. As we noted in Kane , the comments to N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8 state in part:         As noted, the section is limited ...

docket:	A1831-01
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2002-12-13
status:	published
citation:	356 N.J. Super. 151 811 A.2d 930
Document Size:	22666

3 ROBERT WAYNE TARUS v. BOROUGH OF PINE HILL, et al. -- rank: 558

... an act tending to obstruct or interfere with it physically." N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8. See State v. Besson , 110 N.J. Super. 528 , 534 (Law Div. 1970) (stating that "[t]he purpose of [ N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8] is to insure that the good order and decorum of ...

docket:	A2072-04
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2005-11-23
status:	published
citation:	381 N.J. Super. 412 886 A.2d 105
Document Size:	72683

4 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. WILLIAM BRENNAN, -- rank: 471

... Defendant William Brennan was charged with disrupting a public meeting, N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8, and defiant trespass, N.J.S.A. 2C:18-3b ...

docket:	A1912-00
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2001-09-28
status:	published
citation:	344 N.J. Super. 136 780 A.2d 585
Document Size:	37191