Chief Justice Rabner announced that Judges Vinci and Vanek have been permanently assigned to the Appellate Division. They had each been temporarily assigned to that court previously. The Orders making ...

Filings in the Appellate Division and the Supreme Court in the last few days interfered with blogging about three published opinions that the Appellate Division issued during that time. Here ...

State v. Hand, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2024). In State v. Jackson, 243 N.J. 52 (2020), the Supreme Court reversed the defendant’s conviction because his counsel was barred ...

Chief Justice Rabner announced that Judge Jablonski has been promoted to the Appellate Division. He will serve on Part A. Appointed to the Hudson County bench in 2013, Judge Jablonski ...

Today is Election Day, and courts are closed. That offers the opportunity to catch up with the Appellate Division, which issued three published opinions last week. Here are summaries of ...

Judge Vernoia will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 on October 11. In light of that, Chief Justice Rabner announced that Judge Mawla will become Presiding Judge of Part ...

As expected, the Senate voted yesterday to confirm John Hoffman, Governor Murphy’s nominee to fill the seat vacated by Justice Solomon due to his mandatory retirement, to become an Associate ...

As discussed here, Governor Murphy nominated John Hoffman to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Solomon, who reached mandatory retirement this summer. It took until now, over ...

It’s likely that few of us think much about interment and disinterment of the deceased except when death visits our families or friends. But on this date in 2009, the ...

State v. Kearney, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2024). This appeal was from the denial of post-conviction relief. Defendant had been convicted of murder and other offenses. He raised ...