Court Cases

Challenge to the constitutionality of mandatory sentences of thirty years in prison for children convicted of murder.

Amicus participation in appeal of parole denial for a prisoner with developmental disability.

Challenge to the constitutionality of the use of de facto sentences of life without parole for young people.

Amicus brief addressing the sentencing of a 14-year-old convicted of murder.

A case in which the court is asked if it has authority to grant a joint motion to resentence a defendant to remove the mandatory minimum portion of his sentence.

Appeal of Parole Board’s decision denying parole because a person "lacks insight into his criminal behavior" that occurred four decades.

In this novel case, the ACLU-NJ argued that the State’s unlawful and racial use of its law enforcement power against a qualified Black potential juror, by running a criminal background check on him and later having him arrested from the courthouse on a municipal warrant.

Police stopped a car based on a vague race-based description of people who committed a robbery. Our amicus brief on behalf of clergy detailed the harm caused by such stops and urged to Court to create a rule that would prohibit them.

Case asking the court to apply the exclusionary rule to violations of the “knock-and-announce” requirement in search warrants.