Court Cases

Amicus argues that the court should withdrawal the defendant’s guilty plea as to both convictions within the global plea offer since defendant successfully appealed his motion to suppress illegally obtained evidence.  

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.