Blog: Criminal Defense

Siblings Indicted on Federal Mail Fraud Charges in New Jersey
Sep 29, 2017
Federal authorities have charged New Jersey siblings with mail fraud. They have been accused of defrauding a New Jersey medical services firm of $1 million. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the brother and sister face three counts of mail fraud plus a count of conspiring to commit mail fraud.It is alleged that over a four-month period in 2016, the brother and sister formed two shell businesses through which they submitted bogus invoice statements t...
New Jersey Nurse Charged with Sexual Assault and Lewdness
Sep 18, 2017
A New Jersey male nurse has been arrested on two counts of Committing “an act of sexual penetration” using force/coercion or Committing such an act when the victim was physically or mentally “helpless” or “incapacitated. Punishment of sexual assault under § 2C:14-2b, c is a second-degree crime with a maximum 10-year prison sentence. Criminal sexual contact, a fourth-degree sex crime, occurs when the actor in this example “knew” or “should have known” that hi...
New Jersey Bail Reform Rules Tightened Just Months After New System Introduced
Jul 24, 2017
Only a few months ago, New Jersey enacted one of the most sweeping bail system reforms in the country. Under the new system, judges use a rubric to evaluate certain risks related to releasing defendants before trial. The goal of the system was to prevent low-risk defendants from sitting in jail before trial for no better reason than because they couldn’t afford cash bail. Now, the state Attorney General has released new guidelines for stat...

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