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16 STATE v. ALEX SANCHEZ -- rank: 850

... was to begin, Alex moved for severance based on Juan's July 1988 affidavit in which Juan admitted committing the Wyman ... was questioned regarding his intentions to testify on his brother's behalf. Juan stated that he would not testify if he ... sure whether he would or would not testify at Alex's trial if severance was granted.     The trial court denied the severance motion, citing Alex's failure to demonstrate that Juan would testify at Alex's trial if severance were granted. The court also found the ... used as a device to get one of the brother's acquitted. In addition, the court found the motion untimely ...

docket:	a-29-95
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1996-02-05
status:
citation:	143 N.J. 273
Document Size:	69980

17 State of New Jersey v. Ahmad Daniels a/k/a/ Ahmad Daniel -- rank: 846

... alongside a slowly moving SUV. When he was within arm’s reach, the jogger grabbed Lenez’s purse and, after a brief struggle, retreated to the passenger ... the SUV because she did not clearly see the driver’s face. One witness did identify Daniels as the driver of ... instructed the jury on the case law and the juror’s role in assessing credibility. The jury convicted Daniels of robbery ... The Appellate Division affirmed on appeal, finding that the prosecutor’s comments did not meet the standard for reversible error because ... a witness. The Supreme Court granted certification. HELD: The prosecutor’s comments on summation were unfairly prejudicial to Daniels. Failure ...

docket:	a-62-03
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2004-12-14
status:
citation:	182 N.J. 80
Document Size:	66097

18 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. WAYNE DEANGELO -- rank: 843

... preempted by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. A. § 151-69, nor does it abridge any party's freedom of expression. The Ordinance is not void for vagueness ... the general public on the sidewalk in front of Gold's Gym. DeAngelo was the senior IBEW official at the scene ... LEXIS 273 , at *21 (June 14, 2005), "[t]he union's use of the rat constituted confrontational conduct intended to persuade ... writing on it. In response to a complaint by Gold's Gym, the police were summoned. Lawrence Township Police Officer Mark ... of sign that the Ordinance prohibits. The judge denied DeAngelo's motion to dismiss, determining that the display of the ...

docket:	a4229-05
court:	njappellate
decided:	2007-09-13
status:	published
citation:	396 N.J. Super. 23
Document Size:	87642

19 State v. Richard Feaster -- rank: 839

... alleging numerous grounds for reversal. The PCR court rejected Feaster’s petition for relief, and he appealed as of right to ... this opinion – whether the prosecutor interfered with a defense witness’s decision to testify in the PCR proceeding and violated Feaster’s rights to due process and compulsory process rights. The witness is Michael Sadlowski, who had been one of Feaster’s closest friends at the time of the murder. There was ... direct physical evidence linking Feaster to the murder. The State’s case was based almost exclusively on the inculpatory statements made ... by friends and acquaintances of Feaster, including Sadlowski. At Feaster’s murder trial, Sadlowski testified, among other things, that on ...

docket:	a-63-03
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2005-07-14
status:
citation:	184 N.J. 235
Document Size:	164244

20 LAWRENCE LEDERMAN v. PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, INC., et al. -- rank: 836

... bar, admitted pro hac vice, and Mr. Snyder, attorneys; Kenneth S. Thyne, on the brief). Janice DiGennaro (Rivkin Radler) of the ... bar, admitted pro hac vice, Harris J. Zakarin, and Andrew S. Turkish, on the brief). Christopher J. Carey argued the cause ... A.D. Plaintiff Lawrence Lederman appeals from the Law Division's summary judgment dismissing his claims against his former employer, Prudential Life Insurance Company of America (Prudential); Prudential's vice-president and general counsel, Mark E. Faber; his former ... firm,; and multiple LMB attorneys. The court dismissed outright plaintiff's claims against a number of the individual defendants, while at the same time it dismissed and referred plaintiff's claims against Prudential and LMB and its principals to ...

docket:	A1485-04
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2006-05-09
status:	published
citation:
Document Size:	97581

21 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. UCHE ADIM -- rank: 832

... attorney; Samuel Marzarella, Supervising Assistant County Prosecutor, of counsel; Patricia S. Toreki, Assistant County Prosecutor, on the brief). The opinion of ... of four third-degree crimes: possession of cocaine, N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2 and N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5. The judge merged defendant's convictions for possession, possession with intent and conspiracy with his ... judgment of each juror that the State has proved defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." Id. at 409. The "honest ... J. 112 , 133 (2004) (discussing the importance of each juror's participation in deliberations and open-minded dialogue); State v. ...

docket:	a4962-05
court:	superior court appellate division
decided:	2009-11-12
status:	Published
citation:	410 N.J. Super. 410 982 A.2d 969
Document Size:	69884

22 State v. One 1990 Honda Accord -- rank: 829

... in an action to forfeit the property under N.J.S.A. 2C: 64-3f. The Monmouth County Prosecutor filed a civil in rem action under New Jersey's Forfeiture Act, N.J.S.A. 2C:64-1 to -9, seeking to forfeit the ... owned by Lois McDermott, a 65-year-old widow. McDermott's son, Jackie, who had been forbidden by his mother to ... and filed a counterclaim for a declaration that N.J.S.A . 2C:64-3f, which provides for a summary, non ... an action to forfeit the property pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C: 64-3f. 1. The Forfeiture Act separates ...

docket:	a-122-97
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1998-07-15
status:
citation:	154 N.J. 373
Document Size:	62166

23 STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. DARREN L. BRADSHAW -- rank: 825

... the following offenses: first-degree aggravated sexual assault, N.J.S.A. 2C:15-1 (counts four and eight); and third-degree terroristic threats, N.J.S.A. 2C:12-3b (counts five and nine). Counts one through five were severed on defendant's motion and count nine was dismissed prior to trial. After ... version of the No Early Release Act (NERA), N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.2. The State moved to have ... an extended term as a repeat violent offender, N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.1b, or as a persistent offender, N.J.S.A. 2C:44-3a. Defendant did not oppose the ...

docket:	a4731-02
court:	njappellate
decided:	2007-04-02
status:	published
citation:	392 N.J. Super. 425
Document Size:	88750

24 State v. Luis Garcia -- rank: 825

... burglary, and various weapons offenses. At his trial, the State’s witnesses gave the following account. On January 9, 2003, Sergeant ... Sergeant Byrnes saw a handgun on the floor by defendant’s feet. Defendant volunteered that it was his weapon. The car’s occupants were placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters ... had done everything in his power to arrange for Marquinez’s appearance and that the only question was whether the Hudson ... to the Hudson County authorities. Those authorities mistakenly told counsel’s secretary that Marquinez had been transported to Somerset County earlier ... counsel explained his powerlessness over the situation because Hudson County’s noncompliance with the transport order was not defendant’s ...

docket:	a-120-06
court:
decided:	2008-06-18
status:
citation:	195 N.J. 210
Document Size:	69320

25 COUNCIL OF ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL PARTIES, et al. v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DIVISION OF ELECTIONS et al. -- rank: 822

... to declare the statutory definition of "political party," N.J.S.A. 19:23-45, which prohibits a voter from declaring ... Party, the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, and the U.S. Taxpayers Party of New Jersey.     Plaintiff Reform Party of New Jersey is best known through H. Ross Perot's campaign for the Presidency in 1992 and 1996. Perot received ... candidate for President, Pat DiNizio as its candidate for U.S. Senator, and several candidates for the House of Representatives. The ... of the popular vote in New Jersey.     The Libertarian Party's candidates for United States Senate have had similar results ranging ... 1976 to 1994 period. There was no candidate for U.S. Senate in 1996. In 1998, the New Jersey Libertarian ...

docket:	a5701-99
court:	njappellate
decided:	2001-09-10
status:	published
citation:	*CITE_PENDING*
Document Size:	65971

26 COUNCIL OF ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL PARTIES et al. v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DIVISION OF ELECTIONS -- rank: 822

... to declare the statutory definition of "political party," N.J.S.A. 19:23-45, which prohibits a voter from declaring ... Party, the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, and the U.S. Taxpayers Party of New Jersey.     Plaintiff Reform Party of New Jersey is best known through H. Ross Perot's campaign for the Presidency in 1992 and 1996. Perot received ... candidate for President, Pat DiNizio as its candidate for U.S. Senator, and several candidates for the House of Representatives. The ... of the popular vote in New Jersey.     The Libertarian Party's candidates for United States Senate have had similar results ranging ... 1976 to 1994 period. There was no candidate for U.S. Senate in 1996. In 1998, the New Jersey Libertarian ...

docket:	a5698-99
court:	njappellate
decided:	2001-09-10
status:	published
citation:	344 N.J. Super. 225
Document Size:	65987

27 UNALACHTIGO BAND NANTICOKE-LENNI LENAPE, et al. v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY et al. -- rank: 804

... and (b) the 1790 federal Indian Nonintercourse Act, 25 U.S.C.A. §177 , which prohibited the sale of Indian land ... occupancy and control, and the removal of "all non-Indian[s]" from the reservation. Plaintiffs appeal from the trial court's dismissal of their complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction ... lived on the Brotherton reservation. We affirm the trial court's dismissal of plaintiffs' complaint and conclude that the federal courts ... facts, reaching back to the earliest days of New Jersey's history, upon which plaintiffs rely to establish their claim. In ... in exchange for the cessation of hostilities between New Jersey's native peoples and its encroaching new citizenry, the Colony ...

docket:	A0475-02
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2005-02-28
status:	published
citation:	375 N.J. Super. 330 867 A.2d 122
Document Size:	49443

28 State v. William T. Evers -- rank: 804

... of multiple violations of the child endangerment statute, N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4. The State challenges Evers’ sentence to ... Sheriff Michael A. DiMatteo of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in California was investigating the use of child pornography ... pornography. He received the warrant and mailed it to AOL’s corporate headquarters in Virginia. AOL provided DiMatteo with the information ... concluded that imprisonment would constitute a “serious injustice,” N.J.S.A. 2C:44-1d, and sentenced Evers to five years ... ordered Evers to comply with the registration requirements of Megan’s Law. The State appealed the probationary sentence imposed on the ... its discretion by imposing a term of probation. The State’s appeal as of right, based on the dissent below, ...

docket:	a-81-01
court:	njsupreme
decided:	2003-02-13
status:
citation:	175 N.J. 355
Document Size:	118810

29 State of New Jersey v. George Jenewicz -- rank: 794

... the cumulative impact of errors that occurred during defendant Jenewicz's trial cast doubt on the fairness of the trial and on the propriety of the jury's verdict, thereby requiring a new trial. 2 On October 22 ... pursued Jenewicz through their home armed with one of Jenewicz's shotguns, but she tripped and injured her right arm, ending the chase, when the shotgun's muzzle caught in a banister spoke on the staircase. Jenewicz ... chairs or bowling balls against doorframes, and began carrying Jenewicz's shotgun around the house, scattering ammunition in different rooms. On ... a few days and then dismembered it. At trial, Jenewicz's testimony about Gillens's paranoia and violence was corroborated ...

docket:	a-78-06
court:
decided:	2008-01-28
status:
citation:	*CITE_PENDING*
Document Size:	150182

30 MICHAEL HALL, Executor of the Estate of CREOLA HALL Deceased v. HEALTHSOUTH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OF VINELAND ATLANTICARE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER; ACUITY SPECIALTY HOSPITAL OF NEW JERSEY and LINWOOD CARE CENTER - and THE HEALTH CENTER AT GALLOWAY an -- rank: 790

... counsel; Mr. DeMichele of counsel and on the brief). Nicholas S. Jajko (Schwartz Culleton PC) argued the cause for respondent Michael ... and Seniors Management North (collectively, "Galloway"), challenge the trial court's denial of Galloway's motion to dismiss plaintiff's negligence and survivorship action and to refer the case to ... the authority to bind the decedent, his wife, to Galloway's standardized mandatory arbitration provisions when she was admitted to its nursing home. Because plaintiff's legal authority to bind the decedent to mandatory arbitration ...

docket:	a2453-12
court:	New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	0000-00-00
status:	Published
citation:
Document Size:	48657