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181 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. CHRISTIAN RODRIGUEZ -- rank: 749

... July 20, 2016 APPELLATE DIVISION v. CESAR MUNGIA, Defendant, and U.S. SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Surety-Appellant. __________________________________ STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff ... Division, Middlesex County, Indictment Nos. 11-10-1491 (A-0974-14), 11-09-0101 (A-0975-14), and 10-07-0938 (A-0976-14). Richard P. Blender argued the cause for the appellants. William ... not seek extradition. The sureties who posted their bail, appellants U.S. Specialty Insurance Company (U.S. Specialty) and American ...

docket:	a0974-14
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-07-20
status:	published
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182 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. MICHAEL BURTON -- rank: 749

... NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. MICHAEL BURTON, Defendant-Appellant. _______________________________ December 14, 2010 Submitted October 27, 2010 - Decided Before Judges Axelrad and ... PER CURIAM Defendant Michael Burton 1 appeals from a May 14, 2008 order denying his petition for post-conviction relief (PCR ... TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. A. PETITIONER-APPELLANT'S PLEA MUST BE VACATED SINCE THERE WAS AN INADEQUATE FACTUAL ... BY FAILING TO ORDER POST-CONVICTION RELIEF BASED UPON COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO ADVISE HOW JAIL CREDITS WOULD AFFECT HIS SENTENCE ... COURT ERRED IN DENYING A[N EVIDENTIARY] HEARING ON [DEFENDANT'S] PETITION FOR POST-CONVICTION RELIEF ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL ... PROCEDURALLY BAR CLAIM IN POST-CONVICTION PROCEEDING. We determine defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel fail to ...

docket:	a2959-08
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2010-12-14
status:	unpublished
citation:
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183 TURF LAWNMOWER REPAIR, INC. V. BERGEN RECORD CORPORATION, ET AL. -- rank: 749

... allegations of deceptive business practices at Turf. Readers of Locklin's articles were informed that customers paid for more than they ... customers were charged for work that was never done. Locklin's article also described three independent tests conducted by The Record ... article about plaintiffs; defendants had slandered plaintiffs by quoting Turf's former employees who made false and malicious statements to injure ... of that standard, it was unnecessary to determine whether Turf's business involved a matter of legitimate public interest.     The Supreme ... will be imposed on an ordinary business when the media's allegations of consumer fraud, if true, would constitute a violation ... will have a chilling effect on the press. (pp. 10-14) 2.    In defamation actions brought by a private person, ...

docket:	a-27-94
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1995-03-15
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citation:	139 N.J. 392
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184 State v. Daron Josephs -- rank: 749

... 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
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185 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. MICHAEL A. PARLIN -- rank: 747

... facts. Defendant was a life-long friend of the child's mother, and he stayed at their home from time-to ... the middle of the night and felt one of defendant's hands down her pants and the other under her shirt ... m., the mother woke up and saw that her daughter's bedroom light was on and the girl was awake looking ... shocked." She questioned her daughter, and the girl said: "it's Uncle Big Bird . . . I fell asleep down there and when ... took her to the police. A detective from the prosecutor's office spoke to the girl, videotaping the entire interview. The ... on three counts: first-degree aggravated sexual assault, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a(1); second-degree sexual assault ...

docket:	a2576-08
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2011-06-03
status:	unpublished
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186 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. DUPREE S. REYNOLDS -- rank: 747

... 5494-16 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. DUPREE S. REYNOLDS, a/k/a DUPREE PRATT, and DU'PREE REYNOLDS ... Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Camden County, Indictment No. 14-03-0782. Molly O'Donnell Meng, Assistant Deputy Public Defender ... General/Acting Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for respondent (Jill S. Mayer, Acting Camden County Prosecutor, attorney; Jason Magid, of counsel ... a group of small children. Evidence suggested that defendant Dupree S. Reynolds was one of the shooter's accomplices. So, early one morning, police surrounded Reynolds's ex-girlfriend's house, where Reynolds was babysitting his ...

docket:	a5494-16
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2021-09-28
status:	Unpublished
citation:
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187 IN RE REORGANIZATION PLAN 1-2011 -- rank: 747

... Judges Carchman, Fisher and Nugent. On appeal from the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 001-2011, issued June 29, 2011. Adam ... Chris Christie and New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (Jeffrey S. Chiesa, Attorney General, attorney; Robert Lougy, Assistant Attorney General, of ... pursuant to the Executive Reorganization Act of 1969, N.J.S.A. 52:14C-1 to -11 (Reorganization Act), a Governor ... independent agency created by the Fair Housing Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27D-301 to -329 (FHA), and transfer the ... of Mount Laurel , 67 N.J. 151 , cert. denied , 423 U.S. 808 , 96 S. Ct. 18 , 46 L. Ed.2d ...

docket:	a6301-10
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2012-03-08
status:	published
citation:	424 N.J. Super. 410 38 A.3d 620
Document Size:	95286

188 State v. Carmelo Herrera -- rank: 747

... police station. After the Hoboken police were informed that Valentin’s car had been recovered, Lieutenant Edward Mecka contacted the prosecutor’s office to request a “showup” between the victim and the person found with Valentin’s car. Lieutenant Mecka drove Valentin to the police station. They ... of-court showup identification was admissible. Based largely on Valentin’s identification testimony, a jury found defendant guilty of both counts ... appealed. The Appellate Division, in an unpublished opinion, rejected defendant’s argument that the identification procedure was impermissibly suggestive and resulted ... year presumptive term for carjacking. The Supreme Court granted defendant’s petition for certification limited to the issue of the ...

docket:	a-2-05
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decided:	2006-06-20
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189 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. DARNELL O\'NEAL -- rank: 747

... defendant Darnell O'Neal not guilty of carjacking, N.J.S.A. 2C:20-10c, a crime of the third degree. The judge denied the State's motion to sentence defendant as a persistent offender pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:44-3a, and sentenced defendant to a four ... were imposed. The evidence presented at trial supports the jury's verdict. On May 21, 2005, Melliodaire Larose was working as ... and his companion were looking for a "dark spot." Larose's concern grew when they reached a dark area of Mattison ... take the keys with him. Defendant jumped into the driver's seat and started to leave. He gestured to Devalcin, ...

docket:	a3930-06
court:	superior court appellate division
decided:	2010-05-14
status:	Unpublished
citation:
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190 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. LEE E. MOORER -- rank: 747

... possession of a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10(a)(1). He argues the trial ... deliver a CDS to a law enforcement officer, N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10(c). We affirm. We hold that "failure to make lawful disposition" under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10(c) is not a lesser-included offense of possession of a CDS under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10(a). We also hold that under New Jersey's evidence rule permitting substantive use of consistent statements to rebut ... one of them yelled something to the effect of, "It's the cops. Toss your shit." Bowen and Endres followed ...

docket:	a2922-14
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-12-29
status:	published
citation:	448 N.J.Super. 94 151 A.3d 109
Document Size:	53713

191 /usr/local/share/www/libweb/collections/courts/appellate/a-17-21.opn.html -- rank: 747

... Published.) SYLLABUS This syllabus is not part of the Court’s opinion. It has been prepared by the Office of the ... for the Court. In 2020, the Legislature amended N.J.S.A. 2C:44-1 to add a new mitigating factor ... time of the commission of the offense.” N.J.S.A. 2C:44-1(b)(14). It provided that “[t]his new act shall take ... 2. In this appeal, the Court considers defendant Rahee Lane’s argument that the new mitigating factor should be applied to ... following a March 2015 home invasion. After rejecting the State’s original plea offer, defendant pled guilty to certain offenses ...

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192 SUSAN M. BUTTITTA v. ALLIED SIGNAL, INC. -- rank: 747

... where he worked during several summers in the early 1970's, and indirectly, from contact with his father, who worked for GM from 1952 through the 1970's. After the pretrial disposition of the claims against most of ... settled during trial. The jury returned a verdict in plaintiff's favor finding that Borg-Warner and ACL had manufactured, sold ... Borg-Warner and ACL raise numerous issues. I. BORG-WARNER'S APPEAL Borg-Warner argues that the judge erred in his rulings on: (a) causation; (b) the admission of plaintiff's expert testimony; (c) Borg-Warner's claims against settling defendants; and (d) its motion for ...

docket:	a5263-07
court:	superior court appellate division
decided:	2010-04-05
status:	unpublished
citation:
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193 STATE OF NEW JERSEY V. EDWARD GALLAGHER -- rank: 747

... sexual assault by anal penetration in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a (count one); aggravated sexual assault by vaginal penetration while armed with a weapon in violation in N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a (count two); criminal restraint in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:13-2 (count three); terroristic threats in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:12-3a and/or 12-3b (count ...

docket:	a1711-93
court:	njappellate
decided:	1995-11-27
status:	published published
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194 STATEOF NEW JERSEY v. ERICK P. UZCATEGUI -- rank: 747

... Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the briefs). Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General, attorney for respondent (Steven A. Yomtov, Deputy ... northbound on the Garden State Parkway in Toms River. Defendant's BMW collided with the back of a Jeep Cherokee driven ... his arrival at 3:47 a.m., Herr observed defendant's BMW on the right shoulder of the roadway, with damage to its front end and driver's side. Herr also observed Marles's Jeep overturned and engulfed in flames, in the woods to ... defendant to Community Medical Center in Toms River so defendant's blood could be drawn. Herr left the accident scene ...

docket:	a4388-14
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2018-03-13
status:	unpublished
citation:
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195 State v. Alexander Branch -- rank: 747

... Court. This appeal involves a challenge to the trial court’s admission of a police detective’s hearsay testimony. Defendant, Alexander Branch, was charged in a Union ... heard screams coming from the upstairs bedroom of O’Nieal’s seven-year-old twins, John and Juliana. Within moments, a ... a gap between his teeth” and dirty hands. The children’s statements were admitted as “excited utterances” pursuant to N.J ... identifiable fingerprint lifted from the house matched any of Branch’s. A week after the robbery, Gannon and O’Nieal were ... facial hair. Both Gannon and O’Nieal independently selected Branch’s photograph as that of the intruder. At trial, both ...

docket:	a-78-03
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2005-02-01
status:
citation:	182 N.J. 338
Document Size:	101477