Court Cases

Amicus brief arguing that common law requires public access to internal affairs records, where they can be turned over without revealing identity of witnesses.

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.

Amicus brief addressing the impact of marijuana legalization on applications to Pretrial Intervention (PTI) for people who previously received conditional discharges for marijuana offenses.

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.

Challenge to mass transfers of individuals in ICE custody with existing attorney-client relationships to distant detention facilities