The Supreme Court has added one more case to its docket.  That case is State v. Camey, in which the Court granted leave to appeal.  The question presented, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office, is “Was DNA evidence from defendant’s buccal swab admissible pursuant to the inevitable discovery doctrine?”  The Law Division denied the State’s motion to admit defendant’s DNA evidence under the inevitable discovery doctrine.  The Appellate Division granted leave to appeal, and a two-judge panel, in an unpublished per curiam opinion, affirmed that ruling.  The...

The Supreme Court has announced that it has granted review in three more cases.  Two of them resulted from unpublished Appellate Division rulings in cases where police officers are the plaintiffs, and the third is from a published opinion in a criminal case. The criminal appeal is State v. Miller.  The decision below, in which a three-judge panel affirmed defendant’s convictions on two counts of child endangerment by possessing and distributing child pornography, but remanded for resentencing, was reported at 449 N.J. Super. 460 (App. Div. 2017).  The question presented, as phrased by...

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