New Jersey Supreme Court

A crime committed as a juvenile can be considered for sentencing an adult to life without parole under New Jersey’s “three strikes” law, a split state Supreme Court ruled Monday. The case involved a man who had committed armed robbery while he was 16 then committed two additional armed robberies when he was 23. Samuel Ryan was sentenced to life…

New Jersey’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a Republican complaint seeking to toss out the new congressional district map favored by Democrats. The order means the congressional map approved just before Christmas by the redistricting commission will stand. The map will apply for the next decade until the 2030 federal census and a new map is drawn. That map, chosen by...

An octogenarian convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper nearly 50 years ago in one of the state’s most infamous crimes should be released from prison, attorneys argued before the state Supreme Court on Monday, despite the state parole board concluding he is a risk to commit future crimes. Sundiata Acoli was known as Clark Edward Squire when he…

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated Rachel Wainer Apter to be an associate justice of the state Supreme Court

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a prosecutor erred by including a photo of Jack Nicholson from the 1980 classic “The Shining,” in the closing argument of a bank robbery trial.

The New Jersey Supreme Court is cleaning the slate for some juveniles who were facing warrants and fines from more than five years ago.

The first Black woman to sit on New Jersey’s Supreme Court has been sworn in.

Two justices agreed with Carlia Brady after she said she was under extreme emotional distress at the time and shouldn’t be disciplined, but three others determined a suspension was appropriate

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy named attorney Fabiana Pierre-Louis to the state Supreme Court on Friday, making her the first black woman to sit on the state’s highest court. Pierre-Louis, 39, would succeed Walter Timpone, who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 in November. She is Murphy’s first pick for the high court and must now be confirmed by…

A judge who suggested that a woman seeking a restraining order could “close your legs” to prevent a sexual assault was removed from the bench and permanently barred from presiding over a courtroom

A Queens man who had his attempted murder conviction tossed is making a plea to be released from prison amid the coronavirus. Chris Glorioso reports.

The panel’s recommendation echoes what the court decided last summer, which would be to remove the judge who asked if the woman could “close you legs” during the attack

After Superstorm Sandy pummeled the New Jersey coast, then-Gov. Chris Christie set out to build protective sand dunes along most of the state’s 127-mile shoreline. Despite lawsuits from homeowners throughout the shore seeking to block the project, the state prevailed and much of the work has been done. But two recent jury awards in cases seeking compensation for beachfront property...

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday said more than 20,000 breath tests conducted by police in DWI and other cases were not admissible because the machines used to administer the tests were not calibrated properly.

The maker of an acne drug that caused some patients to develop a gastrointestinal disease provided adequate warnings about the drug’s side effects, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in dismissing more than 500 lawsuits against the company.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled juveniles cannot be placed on the state’s sex offender registry for life.

A lawyer who burned himself to death in a grisly protest against ecological destruction was a nationally known gay rights advocate and lead attorney in a famous case involving transgender murder victim Brandon Teena.

A well-known attorney died Saturday morning after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in a reported protest against pollution.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has reversed a decades-old law in a landmark decision that makes the child the focus of divorce relocation proceedings. The law centers on divorced parents who want to leave New Jersey with the child against the other parent’s wishes. NJ.com reports the previous law focused on whether the move would “cause harm” to the...

More than three years after police and an armed driver unleashed a barrage of gunfire outside a popular Atlantic City outlet in a gun battle that ended the man’s life, officials have released dashcam video of the incident.