Year: 2023

If you are on parole and your parole officer determines that you have violated the terms of your parole, the court may send you back to prison to serve the rest of your original sentence. And when you have been arrested on a parole-based warrant, you can be held in jail...

New Jersey changed its approach to bail as part of the reform of New Jersey’s criminal justice system in 2017. The state moved from a system that relied principally on setting monetary bail as a condition of release to a risk-based system that the state says is more objective and...

Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in programs and activities at elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities that receive federal funding. In addition to cases of sexual discrimination in programs, Title IX is often applied to allegations of sexua

New Jersey law provides many ways for someone to be charged with stealing or theft. The charges of theft in New Jersey range from receiving stolen goods to shoplifting, auto theft, armed robbery, and burglary. An arrest on theft charges can land you in jail, regardless of your guilt or...

To convict a criminal defendant, prosecutors must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense attorney’s job is to introduce reasons to doubt the prosecution’s case. Criminal defense lawyers do this by challenging and impeaching the prosecution’s evidence or offering their own evidence