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This ongoing project involves the collecting and coding of all appellate decisions in which New Jersey’s higher courts conceded prosecutorial misconduct between 2010 and 2015. Over this five-year period, hundreds of appeals brought before either the Superior Court Appellate Division or the Supreme Court of New Jersey involved concessions of prosecutorial misconduct by the higher […]

The appellate courts reason that a defendant’s failure to make timely objections during trial supports an inference that errors raised on appeal are inconsequential (State v. Ingram, 2008; State v. Nelson, 2002). In other words, absent timely objections, courts presume that the defense did not perceive the error as prejudicial when it occurred, and thus […]

Appellate courts reflect one of the last lines of defense against what some may consider to be an overzealous or even unethical prosecutor. When prosecutors step out of the bounds of what is appropriate, appellate courts can review their conduct to determine whether defendants are deserving of relief. In the state of New Jersey, Rule […]

In the American criminal legal system, state and local prosecutors operate as the first line of defense between order and lawlessness.