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31 STATE v. BENNY HOGAN, JR. -- rank: 730

... summarized). STATE OF NEW JERSEY V. BENNY HOGAN, JR. (A-83-95) Argued January 29, 1996 -- Decided May 23, 1996 STEIN ... was one of two men who broke into Elnora Daye's Jersey City house and stole her credit cards and $290 in cash. Daye's eyewitness testimony formed the foundation of the State's case. Daye claims that while in her house, she was ... drive off in a car, she wrote down the car's license plate number on a piece of paper that she ... her house talking to a friend when she saw Hogan's car across the street. Hogan was sitting in the ...

docket:	a-83-95
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1996-05-23
status:
citation:	142 N.J. 458
Document Size:	69945

32 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. JOHN AMABILE -- rank: 727

... Jersey, Law Division, Monmouth County, Indictment No. 99-08-0146-S. Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney for appellant (Philip Lago ... falsifying records or falsifying medical records, contrary to N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2, N.J.S.A. 2C:20-4, N.J.S.A. 2C:21-4a, and N.J.S.A. 2C:21-4.1 (count one); second degree attempted theft by deception, contrary to N.J.S.A. 2C:20-4, N.J.S.A. 2C: ...

docket:	A3102-01
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2006-04-03
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	138302

33 State v. Rasheed Mahammad -- rank: 727

... impact statute violate the Federal Constitution by burdening a defendant's right to introduce catch-all mitigating evidence. (pp. 9-16 ... of victim impact evidence than the Federal Constitution. The Victim's Rights Amendment of the New Jersey Constitution specifically recognizes the ... the United States Constitution. The electorate, by passing the Victim's Rights Amendment, and the Legislature, by enacting the victim impact ... statements are clearly impermissible, such as testimony by a victim's family members characterizing and expressing opinions about the defendant, the ... Rule 8) hearing to determine admissibility; reduction of the witness's testimony to writing; and instructions to proposed witnesses and prosecutors ... from rendering a death penalty verdict based on the defendant's character and the circumstances of the crime; the victim ...

docket:	a-138-95
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1996-06-28
status:
citation:	145 N.J. 23
Document Size:	180700

34 S. IN THE MATTER CIVIL COMMITMENT OF D.L. IN THE MATTER CIVIL COMMITMENT OF C.M. -- rank: 724

... the New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA), N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.24 to -27.38. C.M ... and is entitled to a transcript at the Public Defender's expense.                      I      A "sexually violent predator" is defined as:         [A ... a secure facility for control, care and treatment.         [ N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.26(b).] The SVPA provides for ... under the general voluntary civil commitment statutes. See N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.34a. The State has designated the ... address the specific needs of sexually violent predators." N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.34b. In In re Commitment of M.G. , 331 N.J. Super. 365 , 373 (App. Div. 2000), Judge Carchman pointed out the differences ...

docket:	A1185-01
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2002-05-07
status:	published
citation:	351 N.J. Super. 77 797 A.2d 166
Document Size:	43188

35 S. IN THE MATTER CIVIL COMMITMENT OF D.L. IN THE MATTER CIVIL COMMITMENT OF C.M. -- rank: 724

... the New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA), N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.24 to -27.38. C.M ... and is entitled to a transcript at the Public Defender's expense.                      I      A "sexually violent predator" is defined as:         [A ... a secure facility for control, care and treatment.         [ N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.26(b).] The SVPA provides for ... under the general voluntary civil commitment statutes. See N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.34a. The State has designated the ... address the specific needs of sexually violent predators." N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.34b. In In re Commitment of M.G. , 331 N.J. Super. 365 , 373 (App. Div. 2000), Judge Carchman pointed out the differences ...

docket:	A2279-01
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2002-05-07
status:	published
citation:
Document Size:	43140

36 Vincent Hager v. MK Construction -- rank: 721

... Unpublished.) SYLLABUS This syllabus is not part of the Court’s opinion. It has been prepared by the Office of the ... Construction (M&K) with regard to a workers’ compensation court’s order (the Order) that M&K reimburse plaintiff Vincent Hager ... by M&K. Specifically, M&K contends that New Jersey’s Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act (Compassionate Use Act ... and palliative care physician, who enrolled Hager in New Jersey’s medical marijuana program both as an alternative pain treatment and ... as a means to wean him off of opioids. Hager’s marijuana prescription cost him more than six hundred dollars each month. At a worker’s compensation trial, Hager testified personally, and both he and ...

docket:	a-64-19
court:	NJ Supreme Court
decided:	2021-04-13
status:
citation:
Document Size:	106406

37 State v. Daron Josephs -- rank: 721

... apartment together in December of 1994. Emil testified at defendant's trial. According to Emil, he learned from a friend and ... and Junior were selling marijuana from another source at Emil's sales location and pocketing the money for themselves. Emil confronted ... but McLean disarmed him. Emil went to defendant and Junior's bedroom and took their handguns - a nine millimeter and .45 ... defendant and Junior emerge from the front door of Emil's apartment. When Turan Josephs returned to the apartment later that ... the guilt- phase jury from being impermissibly influenced by defendant's prior murder conviction, separate juries were empaneled for the guilt ... the time of the crimes, and thirteen circumstances of defendant's life under the “catch-all” mitigating factor. The jury ...

docket:	a-113-99
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2002-07-15
status:
citation:	174 N.J. 44
Document Size:	215536

38 DR. MYRON A. MEHLMAN V. MOBIL OIL CORP. ET AL -- rank: 719

... a toxic substance, in gasoline produced and sold by Mobil's subsidiary in Japan. Mehlman brought suit under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8. A jury returned a ... 500,000 in punitive damages.     The trial judge granted Mobil's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict on the ground that ... March 1992, Mobil successfully moved to dismiss certain of Mehlman's non-CEPA claims against the individual defendants on the ground that they were barred by N.J.S.A. 34:19-8, which provides that a CEPA action ... remedies. As to the remaining claims, the judge denied Mobil's subsequent motion for summary judgment, which was based upon ...

docket:	a438-94
court:	njappellate
decided:	1996-06-13
status:	published
citation:	291 N.J.Super. 98
Document Size:	106246

39 Mark Lewis and Dennis Winslow, et al. v. Gwendolyn L. Harris, etc., et al. -- rank: 719

... respective municipalities, plaintiffs sued challenging the constitutionality of the State's marriage statutes.     In a complaint filed in the Superior Court ... Court Judge Linda Feinberg, entered summary judgment in the State's favor and dismissed the complaint. Plaintiffs appealed. In a split ... the majority opinion in which he concluded that New Jersey's marriage statutes do not contravene the substantive due process and ... Anthony Parrillo filed a concurring opinion. Although joining Judge Skillman's opinion, Judge Parrillo added his view of the twofold nature ... rights of marriage. He submitted that it was the Legislature's role to weigh the benefits and costs flowing from a ... people of this State. (pp. 21-25) 3. New Jersey's marriage laws, which were first enacted in 1912, limit ...

docket:	a-68-05
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2006-10-25
status:
citation:	*CITE_PENDING*
Document Size:	181355

40 State v. Thomas J. Koskovich -- rank: 719

... abandoned property and kill him. They ordered pizzas from Tony's Pizza, requesting delivery to an abandoned house on Scott Road ... killings the next day, Christine Slater, a friend of Koskovich's, contacted the police. The day before the homicides, Koskovich had ... addition, a resident of Scott Road who had seen Koskovich's automobile on that Road the evening of the murders also ... police after he observed the same vehicle parked at Koskovich's residence.     During the early morning hours of April 21, 1997, the State Police executed a warrant for Koskovich's arrest at his home. The officers searched Koskovich and found ... that the murder of Giordano involved depravity of mind (384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602 , 16 L. Ed. ...

docket:	a-22-99
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2001-06-07
status:
citation:	168 N.J. 448
Document Size:	270078

41 State v. Ambrose A. Harris -- rank: 716

... our civilization.'" Id. at 146 (quoting Bridges v. California , 314 U.S. 252 , 260, 62 S. Ct. 190 , 192, 86 L. Ed. 192 , 201 (1941)).          In ... the conduct of the trial. In Sheppard v. Maxwell , 384 U.S. 333 , 86 S. Ct. 1507 , 16 L. Ed.2d 600 (1966), the ...

docket:	a-17-97
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1998-07-30
status:
citation:	156 N.J. 122
Document Size:	286640

42 STATE V. BOBBY LEE BROWN -- rank: 713

... of John Bell.     Co-defendant Coleen Alexander was the State's chief witness at trial. In July 1992, she pled guilty ... romantically involved and living together at the home of Alexander's adoptive parents at the time of the murders. The victims were Alexander's great aunt and great uncle. Victim Alice Skov was eighty ... suffered a stroke. Victim John Bell was staying at Skov's house to care for her after the stroke.     Brown and ... and on one occasion they stole around $350 from Skov's purse. According to the State's evidence, Brown began making plans to rob Skov and ...

docket:	a-20-93
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1994-12-21
status:
citation:	138 N.J. 481
Document Size:	257909

43 NEW JERSEY OUTDOOR ALLIANCE v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION -- rank: 710

... 18T4 NEW JERSEY OUTDOOR ALLIANCE, SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL, and SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION, Appellants, v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ... the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, Douglas S. Burdin, of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac ... Kim, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondents (Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General, attorney; Jason W. Rockwell, Assistant Attorney General ... in New Jersey. The present case involves the executive branch's closure of State lands 1 to the bear hunt. Currently ... and enjoin the closure of State lands for the hunt's second phase. We reject appellants' contention that the closure requires ... has held, a closure such as this involves the State's proprietary interests and not the State's role as ...

docket:	a0525-18
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2018-11-16
status:	Unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	74511

44 State v. Charles Apprendi, Jr. -- rank: 710

... appeal concerns the constitutionality of a provision of New Jersey's hate crime laws that allows enhanced sentencing in any case ... a biased purpose. 135 N.J. 517, cert. denied , 513 U.S. 970 (1994). The majority also found that the use of ... the section of the Criminal Code dealing with the court's authority in sentencing. One judge dissented. She found that the ... a crime beyond a reasonable doubt and that the State's power to define away the elements of the crime cannot extend to defining away the actor's culpable purpose.     Apprendi filed an appeal as of right ...

docket:	a-164-97
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1999-06-24
status:
citation:	159 N.J. 7
Document Size:	115562

45 SPECIAL CARE OF NEW JERSEY, INC., Petitioner-Appellant v. BOARD OF REVIEW et al. -- rank: 710

... a provision of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA), 26 U.S.C.A. §§3301 to 3311, which exempts such agencies from payment of federal employer taxes, preempts New Jersey's Temporary Disability Benefits Law (TDBL), N.J.S.A. 43:21-25 to -66, which does not afford ... Board of Review that FUTA does not preempt the State's TDBL, and accordingly affirm.     Special Care recruits caregivers through newspaper ... applicant to be qualified, the parties enter into a "Caregiver's Agreement," under which Special Care assigns clients in need ...

docket:	a6870-97
court:	njappellate
decided:	2000-01-10
status:	published
citation:	327 N.J.Super. 197
Document Size:	28985