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- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. TAMAJ R. LEMMON (17-06-0632, PASSAIC COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Unpublished Opinionsnjcourts.gov… Randolph, and took part in attacking two of Randolph's companions, Tyshawn Daniels and Zimere Kellam, all in … fired two or three more shots at him, point-blank. Randolph died from the gunshot wounds. Kellam survived the shot in … the trial court administered the following instruction: Ladies and gentlemen, you've now heard some testimony that …
- njcourts.gov… debit card at a Wawa store on October 27,2 and his cellular company provided information that his phone was last … Costello residence the previous week, noting he had been coming and going from their house for about the last eight … used here as a model practice. If, for instance, Knight had died or disappeared in the interim and could not be recalled …
- njcourts.gov… car. Reggie then called his friend, Bruce Hall, who was coming to buy a car, and asked Hall to bring his gun. When … outside and was struck by a bullet in the chest. She later died at the hospital. Police canvassed the scene and … street" from Reggie's house. One man was wearing a gray hoodie and the other two "had black hoodies on[.]" He saw the …
- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. TYRICE O. BERRY (14-06-1040, OCEAN COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Unpublished Opinionsnjcourts.gov… [I] THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO INCLUDE IN ITS ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY CHARGE THE LANGUAGE REQUIRED BY STATE V … had seen a "male with a bushy beard, bushy Afro, blue hoodie, [and] blue jeans." Asbury Park Police Officer Gregory … nearby Crown Fried Chicken which showed a man in a dark hoodie carrying "a stick or cane." They also obtained footage …
- njcourts.gov… from the burning house, but Rasheen, [and the children] died in the fire. [Id. at 3.] Subsequent investigation led … Barnes, who was a friend of Glover's cousin and "a foot soldier in the Bounty Hunter Bloods (BHB) street gang in … probability" that the deficient performance affected the outcome. Fritz, 105 N.J. at 58. "A reasonable probability is a …
- njcourts.gov… shot Mark Peterson and William Matthews during a crowded "Ladies Night" event at the Willingboro VFW Hall. A jury … BEING DEPRIVED OF A FAIR TRIAL.[1] POINT II THE PROSECUTOR COMMITTED MISCONDUCT WHEN HE MADE EGREGIOUS COMMENTS DURING … was not on while he was at the VFW hall because the battery died. But a portion of Benedict's body camera video was …
- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. CARLOS I. MENJIVAR (15-05-0762, MONMOUTH COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Unpublished Opinionsnjcourts.gov… the friends left. Later that day, police discovered the bodies of the other friend and the woman. They had been … outside Ferdinand's apartment, they smelled the odor of "decomposition." After no one answered their knocks, the police … head, neck, and chest. The examiner testified that Maritza died from bleeding and asphyxiation. 5 A-3742-18 During the …
- njcourts.gov… defendant. The three witnesses, two of whom were only forthcoming after their own arrests on unrelated matters, gave … at the scene and transported him to the hospital, where he died from injuries sustained from three gunshot wounds. The … the 9 A-4177-18 man holding the gun was wearing a grey hoodie and either grey sweatpants or blue jeans, but he was not …
- njcourts.gov… with a forty-year period of parole ineligibility, comprised of two consecutive sentences. The convictions … court may not substitute an alternate juror unless "a juror dies or is discharged by the court because of illness or … jurors is the antithesis of the rational discourse embodied" in the Czachor charge. Dorsainvil, 435 N.J. Super. at …
- njcourts.gov… No. 09-07-2029, with: second-degree conspiracy to commit robbery, N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2 (count one); two counts of … told Hayes: "'Yeah, Mu, I love this shit right here, I'd die for it,'" which Hayes realized meant he "couldn't tell … expert would inform the jury of relevant social science studies and experiments conducted by others regarding the …
- njcourts.gov… procedural history began in 2011 when plaintiffs filed a complaint against defendant and others. Plaintiffs alleged … When deposed, defendant denied being aware of any studies in the Journal of Clinical Oncology pertaining to the … day they arrived, plaintiff received word her father had died. She and her family returned home the next day. …
- njcourts.gov… New Jersey- based former employer. Plaintiff alleges the company wrongfully denied him a promotion to a position in … he informed Warras and Welch on multiple occasions 1 Beth died in March 2017, about eight months after plaintiff was … Restatement's most-significant-relationship test embodies all the elements of [the New Jersey Supreme] Court's …
- njcourts.gov… a public park. The witnesses saw the group of children, accompanied by several adults, playing on equipment in a … only a few years before the decisions in Koettgen. He died in 1943. His treatise is updated and published by … upon a 2008 law review article that refers to research studies showing that, within one day after viewing a person, a …
- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. LUIS A. LORA (14-07-0465, SOMERSET COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Published Opinionsnjcourts.gov… the door and start the engine if the smart key battery died. A surveillance video showed Fiorino and the two men, … general manager called the ploy "unfortunately . . . very common." At 1:54 a.m., Bridgewater Township Patrol Sergeant … The cell phone was brought to the New Jersey Regional Computer Forensics Lab and was searched pursuant to a …
- njcourts.gov… the Miranda1 warnings. He also contends the court committed errors during the trial that individually and … Avenue in Irvington. The building housing the nightclub is comprised of three stories with private residences on the … deliberately withheld information that a person had died from a drug overdose until after the defendant had …
- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. WILLIAM J. THOMAS (80-12-1541, ATLANTIC COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Published Opinionsnjcourts.gov… life sentence he received for a double murder he committed at age seventeen. Defendant was initially eligible … during the forty years he has been incarcerated, completed programs to address his behavior and substance … defendant struck him with the tire iron. The two later died from their injuries. The next morning, defendant, …
- njcourts.gov… defendant confessed. Neither the Fifth Amendment nor state common law calls for suppression of defendant’s statements. … older brother saw her playing on the second floor of their complex near apartment 16A. When he later knocked on that … Raynor then asked if defendant had sex with A.S. after she died. Defendant replied, “No. Not after. So, if I did, …
- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. ELLIOT P. NOCK (15-10-3018, CAMDEN COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Unpublished Opinionsnjcourts.gov… victims' families and witnesses outweigh the Judiciary's commitment to transparency in this opinion, we use initials … on Morgan Boulevard in Camden. Johnson and Dixon both died from their gunshot wounds. As will be explained, … saw defendant shoot a man on Haddon Avenue. Frank did not come forward to tell what he claimed he saw until July 2016, …
- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. SAMUEL K. DAVIS (12-12-1189, GLOUCESTER COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Unpublished Opinionsnjcourts.gov… erred in its instructions to the jury, the prosecutor committed misconduct during summation, and the State's … of proof and the jury's duty to determine whether defendant committed the charges in the indictment. Later that day, the … go to see who was there. The autopsy revealed that Sweeten died of "sharpened blunt trauma," which included "stab …
- STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. TIMOTHY PUSKAS (16-07-1220, MIDDLESEX COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) - Unpublished Opinionsnjcourts.gov… between defendant and an informant, Wayne Stoecker, who died prior to trial. Defendant was tried before a jury over … 25, 2022, Judge Carter issued a thorough written opinion, accompanied by an order granting in part and denying in part … Stoecker's cell phone and a grey hooded sweatshirt (hoodie) that he had with him at arrest. Id. at 12. 8 A-3106-21 …