By now we’ve all heard of the Innocence Project, the organization that works to free those who were wrongly convicted using DNA evidence. But DNA evidence isn’t available in all criminal cases. As a matter of fact, it’s not available in most criminal cases. One program, out of Seton Hall University Law School is working on all of the other cases, those in which the convicted maintains their innocence but where there is no DNA evidence available. [Read More...]

The New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) conducted a three year investigation into the statewide use of confidential informants in criminal cases. According to the Associated Press, what they found was somewhat disturbing. [Read More...]

A Cumberland County man is likely wishing a decision had come sooner as a divided New Jersey Supreme Court ruled his 4 year old conviction be thrown out on account of an illegal search. He was initially charged with possession of cocaine after being stopped for riding his bicycle on a sidewalk. [Read More...]

The New Jersey state Supreme Court ruled this past week that police officers cannot destroy notes taken throughout the course of an investigation, even after completing an official report. The reason is so that attorneys can have access to the initial observations of officers for use in the defense of their clients when accused of a crime. [Read More...]

As our use and even dependence on these high tech devices and programs increase, so does the likelihood that they will be used in a criminal trial against us. Law enforcement across the state are adapting to the growing body of potential evidence that has arisen over the past decade or so with advances in technology. Not only do we all carry cell phones now, but more and more of us are on multiple social networking sites every single day. [Read More...]