NJ Supreme Court Clarifies When Warrantless Searches of a Detainees Home is Allowed

  • NJ Supreme Court Clarifies When Warrantless Searches of a Detainees Home is Allowed
    NJ Supreme Court Clarifies When Warrantless Searches of a Detainees Home is Allowed
    Jersey City, NJ- If New Jersey police want to search a person’s home, by law they must have a warrant or satisfy one of the exceptions to the warrant requirement. Federal and state courts are regularly asked to clarify when a warrantless search of a person or their property is...
  • Essex County Police Receive Grant for Body Cameras
    Essex County Police Receive Grant for Body Cameras
    Newark, NJ- A federal grant awarded to the New Jersey State Attorney General’s office will be distributed to several municipalities to purchase body cameras for law enforcement officers. Three towns in Essex County will receive the funds to support dozens of cameras. (more…)
  • Underfunded Public Defender’s Offices Cost Criminal Defendants
    Underfunded Public Defender’s Offices Cost Criminal Defendants
    Newark, NJ- All Americans accused of a crime are entitled to defense counsel regardless of their crime or their income level. A defense attorney is supposed to be provided to indigent and low-income offenders by public defender’s offices in each jurisdiction, but there is a growing underfunding problem in these...
  • New Jersey Enacts Criminal Justice Reforms
    New Jersey Enacts Criminal Justice Reforms
    Newark, NJ- The Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates for criminal justice reform, estimates that 38.5 percent of people in New Jersey’s jails cannot afford to pay bail and remain incarcerated until they are assigned a court date. Many of these individuals are being held for minor crimes, and...
  • Law Enforcement Seeking Data from Amazon Echo in Murder Investigation
    Law Enforcement Seeking Data from Amazon Echo in Murder Investigation
    Elizabeth, NJ- The Amazon Echo is a voice-activated virtual assistant aimed at helping people with their daily tasks, but law enforcement in Benton, Arkansas thinks data collected on one man’s Echo could solve a murder case. In addition to garnering national attention, the case has ignited the debate about privacy...