The Supreme Court announced that it has granted review in seven more cases. One of those, the only civil case, is before the Court on leave to appeal, while the Court granted certification in the others. Five of the seven new cases are criminal matters. The other two are civil appeals. Glassman v. Friedel is the leave to appeal case. The question presented there, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Does the framework established in Ciluffo v. Middlesex General Hospital, 146 N.J. Super. 476 (App. Div. 1977), which awards a pro tanto credit to successive tortfeasors...

State v. Outland, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). This unanimous ruling was the first opinion authored by Justice Pierre-Louis. It was a robbery case in which defendant, who had a prior criminal record and was at the time of trial serving a 16-year sentence for another robbery, sought to represent himself. At a hearing held three days before the trial date, the trial judge asked him many questions about his knowledge of the substantive and procedural law that applied to his case. Citing defendant’s responses, which evidenced (among other things) his lack of knowledge of the details of or defenses...

Late last week, the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division each issued two published opinions. Neither court has issued any published opinions this week (nor is either court slated to do so tomorrow, a relatively long hiatus for both courts at this point in a Term), thus affording time for another catch-up post. Here are summaries of those latest opinions. Maison v. New Jersey Transit Corp., ___ N.J. ___ (2021). This was a 4-3 decision in a case in which plaintiff, a passenger on a New Jersey Transit bus, was attacked and injured by another passenger, who threw a bottle at plaintiff....