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10.07.2021 / 06:11

Camden man's homicide conviction overturned after new evidence uncovered

TRENTON - A New Jersey man serving a 60-year sentence for a 2004 double homicide had his conviction overturned by a state judge after the attorney general’s office uncovered evidence exonerating him. Taron Hill, 34, was convicted in 2006 on two counts of murder and other weapons charges in the September 2004 shooting deaths of Robin Battie and Tinesha Lewis in Camden.He was sentenced to 60 years without the possibility of parole. On Friday, state Superior Court Judge Edward McBride Jr.

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New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal stepping down to join SEC

New Jersey AG Gurbir Grewal New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (NJ OAG) TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, the nation’s first Sikh state attorney general, is resigning to join the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency and Gov.

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Bridgeton shooting: Victims identified, one arrest made after mass shooting at NJ house party

FAIRFIELD TWP., N.J. - Authorities in New Jersey provided new details Monday on a mass shooting at a Bridgeton house party that claimed the lives of two people and left 12 others injured by gunfire. New Jersey State Police say troopers responded to a report of a shooting at a home at 1029 East Commerce Street in Fairfield Township, Cumberland County around 11:50 p.m. Saturday night. Monday morning, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal unveiled that the shooting was not random a random act of violence, but rather a targeted act. He identified the deceased victims as Kevin Elliot, 30, and Asia Hester, 25.

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'Repeated' COVID violations close Wildwood's Shamrock Beef & Ale for summer

WILDWOOD, N.J. - A Wildwood, New Jersey bar will be closed for the summer after repeated violations of the state's COVID-19 health and safety orders prompted officials to suspend their liquor license.Under a negotiated settlement with state alcohol regulators, Shamrock Beef & Ale will have its liquor license suspended from May 1 through Sept.

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New Jersey launches searchable site of police use-of-force reports

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (NJ OAG) TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey’s attorney general has launched an online database that allows the public to search reports of police use of force from across the state’s more than 500 police departments.Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Tuesday in a statement that the new site, which his office says is a beta, or test, version, is part of an ongoing effort to increase police accountability and openness.The site includes data from Oct. 2020, when Grewal began to require police departments to submit reports online for the database, until Feb.

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4 charged in New Jersey gun ring that led to shooting death of toddler, AG says

TRENTON - Four residents were indicted on charges they trafficked guns into New Jersey as part of a gun ring that led to the shooting death of a toddler in 2019, the state’s Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Wednesday.The defendants were arrested in January last year on charges, but were indicted on a 57-count grand jury indictment on Tuesday, Grewal said.Charged in the scheme are 34-year-old Robert Crosley III, who’s charged with managing the gun trafficking conspiracy that led to the recovery of 36 guns and 20 ounces of methamphetamine — enough for 14,000 individual doses, according to Grewal. Forty-year-old Matthew Zoba is charged with running the drug trafficking conspiracy.

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Essex County, N.J. man arrested, charged with attempting to lure boy for sex, officials say

Keith Matheis MONTCLAIR, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey man has been arrested for attempting to lure an underage boy for sex and for sending child sexual abuse material through social media to people he thought were underage, N.J. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Tuesday.Montclair resident 67-year-old Keith Matheis was arrested March 1 at his residence.

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Pot decriminalization brings sweeping enforcement changes in NJ

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey's top law enforcement official has released guidelines for police in the wake of the state's decriminalization of marijuana.Under the guidelines released by state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, police are no longer allowed to detain or arrest people for possessing or distributing small amounts of marijuana.Officers also won't be able to use the smell of marijuana as justification to conduct a search of a person or vehicle.On Monday, Democratic Gov.

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3 guards accused in attack, cover-up at NJ women's prison

TRENTON, N.J. – Three prison guards face misconduct charges stemming from a violent attack on at least six female inmates, including one who was punched 28 times, New Jersey’s attorney general said Thursday.

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New Jersey attorney general unveils new force policy for police

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (Photo by Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey’s top law enforcement official on Monday unveiled new guidelines governing the use of force for the state’s nearly 40,000 police officers, saying the changes would help restore public trust and make the state "a national leader in policing reform."The new policy, which had been promised in the wake of widespread protests against police brutality, sets up a framework for police interactions with civilians, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in a statement.Among the new policies are a prohibition against any use of physical force against a civilian except as a last report and only after attempts at de-escalation; a

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NJ attorney general quarantining after staffer tests positive

TRENTON, N.J. - The attorney general of New Jersey is quarantining at home after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesperson said Wednesday. Communications director Steven Barnes said that Attorney General Gurbir Grewal immediately took a rapid test that came back positive, but that a different follow-up test returned a negative result. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (Photo by Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)Barnes said Grewal, who has no symptoms, is following federal and state health guidance and quarantining at home while officials notify everyone who may have come into contact with him during the potential infection window.

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New Jersey warns: Marijuana isn't legal yet

TRENTON, N.J. - Although New Jersey voters on Tuesday strongly backed the legalization of recreational marijuana use, state officials are warning people to not light up just yet.Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday echoed a statement that Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued the day before: That recreational weed isn't legal yet and may not be for a year or so."All of the State's criminal laws relating to marijuana continue to apply," Grewal said in the statement.

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Court upholds New Jersey AG’s order to open police disciplinary files

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (Photo by Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)TRENTON - A New Jersey appeals court on Friday upheld Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s authority to order the release of police disciplinary files dating back 20 years, a step taken in the days after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police sparked protests and calls for more police accountability.Grewal’s directives issued in June required law enforcement agencies across the state to begin publicly identifying officers who were fired, demoted or suspended for more than five days because of a disciplinary violation, and required state police to release data going back to 2000.The directives were suspended after police and troopers unions

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States considering legal action against Trump administration over USPS, mail-in voting

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New Jersey to ID police officers with disciplinary violations

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (Photo by Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey police must divulge the names of law enforcement officers who commit serious disciplinary violations, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal ordered on Monday.The state's top law enforcement official said in a statement that the order would apply going forward to all state, county and local law enforcement agencies.Agencies must publicly identify officers who were fired, demoted or suspended for more than five days because of a disciplinary violation, Grewal said. The first lists must be published by Dec.

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NJ officials seek residents input on use of force policy reform

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (Photo by Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)TRENTON - Officials in New Jersey will look to residents when deciding on revamped use of force policies, the state announced Friday.Attorney General Gurbir Grewal's office has launched an online portal for concerned citizens to submit their comments on policy reform. There will also be community listening sessions in all of the state's 21 counties.Many have called for reform of policing policies in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

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Video shows struggle before New Jersey trooper fired on man

A New Jersey state trooper fired his handgun six times, killing a New York state man after a struggle erupted during a traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway last month, video released Monday showed.About a dozen audio and video recordings from the May 23 traffic stop in Bass River, New Jersey, shed more light on the death of 28-year-old Maurice Gordon, a black man from Poughkeepsie, whose death has sparked an investigation by the state attorney general and will lead the case to be presented to a grand jury under a 2019 law aimed at holding law enforcement accountable.The trooper was identified for the first time Monday as Sgt.

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NJ to overhaul police use-of-force guidelines after death of George Floyd, AG says

Karen Asper-Jordan, President of the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters, joins Good Day Philadelphia to discuss the continued fight for civil rights.

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AG: 8 charged after NJ trooper shot during confrontation with 'hostile mob'

TRENTON, N.J. - Authorities in New Jersey have announced charges against eight people in connection to a shooting that wounded a New Jersey State Trooper on Saturday.

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