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District Attorney's Office to receive $968000 for realignment costs
However, according to sheriff's officials, AB 109?s amendments to the penal code did not differentiate between a principal offense and enhancements that add to the defendant's sentence. The result: felons can be sentenced to five, 10, 20 or more years
Updated: 12/06/2011 06:04P
40 people, including 6 ex-MVC clerks, indicted for illegal sales of NJ
State Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor said Tuesday his office obtained six state grand jury indictments charging the 40 people with conspiracy, official misconduct and computer criminal activity, all in the second degree, and third-degree
Updated: 12/06/2011 05:38P
KCTV 5NJ report: Organized crime getting into recycling
A law adopted in 1983 that was designed to keep criminals out of the solid waste business isn't properly enforced and commercial recyclers remain largely unregulated. "The integrity of this industry remains in peril," the commission wrote.
Updated: 12/06/2011 05:25P
NJ report: Organized crime getting into recycling
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Updated: 12/06/2011 05:23P
NJ commission: Organized crime still in waste hauling business, now getting
New York's tougher licensing laws — it requires checks for consultants and sales associates in solid waste and for recyclers — encourage organized crime to set up shop across the Hudson River in New Jersey, investigators say.
Updated: 12/06/2011 05:13P
Can lab tests stand in court, short of expert testimony?
By a 5-4 vote in a 2009 Massachusetts case, the court said defendants have the right to cross-examine the person who prepares such blood, ballistic and other laboratory reports used at trial. The new dispute, closely watched by prosecutors and defense
Updated: 12/06/2011 05:13P
USDOJ: Two New Jersey Men Charged with Allegedly Trafficking Counterfeit Perfume
Criminal indictments are only charges and are not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty by proof beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. The indictment announced today is an example of the type of
Updated: 12/06/2011 05:09P
More from our interview with DA Leon Cannizzaro
CANNIZZARO: Well, I think that the public is the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system serves the public, but the public makes up the criminal justice system. If we don't have the participation of witnesses, if we don't have their
Updated: 12/06/2011 05:03P
State Senate approves expansion of DNA use in investigations
By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG – A bill sponsored by the Senate majority leader to expand law enforcement`s use of DNA in criminal investigations flew through the Senate today without debate. It was approved by a 42-6 vote. The bill by Sen.
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:35P
State Senate approves expansion of DNA use in investigations updated 4:32 pm
By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG – A bill sponsored by the Senate majority leader to expand law enforcement`s use of DNA in criminal investigations flew through the Senate today without debate. It was approved by a 42-6 vote. The bill by Sen.
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:33P
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