The War On Doctors
There is an alarming trend towards aggressive investigations by state and federal authorities on physicians. Whether it is by the state medical boards, DEA or federal or state prosecutors, doctors’...
View ArticleWhat are Your Rights When You are Stopped by the Police?
You are driving on the roads of New Jersey, paying attention to the speed limit, road conditions, and other drivers, when you glance in your rearview mirror and see the flashing strobe lights of a...
View ArticleGovernment Prosecutions of Compounded Drugs Schemes
In the past several years, the federal government has focused investigative and enforcement resources on pharmacies that compound drugs, and the marketers, doctors and pharmacists involved. Criminal...
View ArticleWhat To Do If Your Teenager is Stopped With Drugs in the Car?
While most people consider themselves unlikely to become the subject of a police investigation, there is one common situation in which ordinary citizens fall under police scrutiny: the traffic stop....
View ArticleIs the NJ Attorney General’s moratorium on marijuana prosecutions a “move...
When New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued a memorandum yesterday ordering local prosecutors to temporarily halt marijuana prosecutions in municipal courts until September, news outlets,...
View ArticleDriving While High – There May Soon be a Breathalyzer for Pot
With the legalization of marijuana for recreational and medicinal uses across the country, police and legislators are scrambling for accurate devices that can detect a person’s impairment for driving...
View ArticleOpioid Prosecutions of Doctors and Pharmacists
The federal government has hired 300 additional prosecutors and created the Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit and the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement Team to investigate, uncover, and...
View ArticleFederal Bail and Pretrial Detention
It may come as a surprise to most, including many criminal defense attorneys, that the federal system detains a greater percentage of people arrested than state systems. Since the Bail Reform Act...
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The Straight Dope on Legalization of Marijuana in New Jersey
On February 22, 2021, New Jersey became the 14th state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana when Governor Phil Murphy signed a group of laws that enacted the marijuana legalization ballot...
View ArticleAbrogation of Brimage Guidelines
On April 19, 2021, one day after Governor Phil Murphy conditionally vetoed a bill that would have eliminated mandatory minimum prison sentences for a broad set of crimes, New Jersey’s Attorney General,...
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