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- Appellate Highlights, March to August 2011
- The following is a selection of particularly significant or interesting criminal cases decided by the New Jersey Supreme Court or the Appellate Division between March and August of 2011. When a case has been approved for publication but has not yet appeared in the advance sheets as of the date this article was written, it is identified as "? N.J. [or N.J. Super.] ?." When a member of the ACDL-NJ represented the defendant or amicus curiae in any of these cases, his or her name is included in parenthesis following the summary. For additional convenience, a LEXIS or Atlantic Second (A.2d) citation and/or a “hyperlink” to the judiciary website is included after the description of every case listed for publication that has not appeared in a published volume or advance sheet. A hyperlink to the judiciary website for unpublished cases decided after September 20, 2005, is also included. Two weeks from the date of issue, Supreme Court and Appellate Division opinions are moved to the archive on the Rutgers Law School-Camden Web site, a link to which is provided on the Judiciary’s Web page. Read More
- ACDL-NJ Amicus List
- AMICUS CURIAE PARTICIPATION LIST (N.J. SUPREME COURT) Read More
- Message from the President, William H. Buckman, September 7, 2010
- Insuring Justice, Fairness and due process for all I am honored and excited to have been chosen as ACDL-NJ’s president for 2010-2011. But my excitement emanates from my desire for this organization to make a difference in our criminal justice system. In the overwhelming crush of our everyday professional lives as N.J. criminal defense lawyers, it is an occupational hazard that we can lose sight at times who we really are: The protectors of the rights of all to fairness and justice by seeing to it that the oft times most despised in our society are treated fairly. Over a generation ago Martin Luther King reminded us that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This Organization must bear witness to the enduring fact that if our criminal justice system cannot respect the rights of accused, in reality no citizen’s rights are safe. And sadly, in this supposedly progressive state, there remains injustice to correct...Read More
- Message from the President, Donald A. DiGioia, November 13, 2009
- As President of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, it is my honor to welcome you to our website. Now in our 25th year, ACDL-NJ remains firmly committed to represent the interests of criminal defense lawyers who fight relentlessly to protect the constitutional rights of persons accused of crime...Read More
- Installation News
- On May 21, 2009, the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (ACDL-NJ) held its annual inauguration dinner at the Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange. More than 300 guests attended that evening as Donald A. DiGioia, of Weiseman DiGioia, P.A. (Mountainside, N.J.), was sworn in as President by the Honorable Kenneth J. Grispin, J.S.C...