Court Cases

Amicus brief challenging the lawfulness of a canine sniff that adds 37 minutes to a traffic stop.

Amicus brief addressing eligibility for expungement of criminal records following successful completion of drug court.

Amicus brief addressing appropriate remedy for a prosecutor’s failure to provide required exculpatory information prior to a detention hearing.

Amicus brief in challenge to New Jersey state courts' use of non-convicted conduct as a factor in sentencing.

Challenge to police failure to document conversations between officers and witnesses making eyewitness identifications.

Amicus brief in support of the proposition that once a pretrial detainee asks for a lawyer, police cannot re-interrogate him or her without counsel present, unless he or she re-initiates the interrogation.

Amicus brief in a case where contraband was seized during an unlawful, warrantless search of a motel room, which subsequently led to a warrantless search of a car.

The ACLU-NJ represents P.D., a pretrial detainee with mental illness who, after being unable to make bail, was held in solitary confinement for more than four months.

This lawsuit challenged solitary confinement practices at the Middlesex County Jail in “C-Pod”, a unit specifically for solitary confinement.