New Jersey Law Journal Top Stories November 10, 2008
By David Badertscher, PLL
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<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRYUAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVR" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Defendant Can't Be Forced To Take Drug To Make Him Fit for Trial, Judge Rules</b></font></a><font size="2">
<br/>" Federal authorities can't force a mentally-ill bank robbery suspect to take an anti-psychotic drug that could make him competent to stand trial because the side effects might be harmful, a federal judge in Camden has ruled."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 07, 2008 -->
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRYUAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVS" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Judge Accused of Drunkenness on the Bench Says He Was Under Medication</b></font></a><font size="2">
<br/>" Richard Sasso, in defense to ethics charges that he was drunk in court and disrespectful and harsh towards litigants, says that any aberrational behavior was due to his being heavily medicated and that the substantive actions he took were appropriate."</font></font></p>
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRYUAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVT" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>New Evidence Rule Offers Damage Control For Unintended Release of Privileged Data</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>"Accidental disclosure of privileged information in discovery can be a nightmare for litigators, but a new federal evidence rule will help minimize the damages from such mishaps."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 03, 2008 -->
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRYUAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVU" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Uncounseled Waivers of Challenges to Polygraph Tests Make Justices See Red</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>" Defense attorneys are hopeful, and the state attorney general fearful, that New Jersey's Supreme Court is poised to topple a 1989 appellate case that says polygraph results are admissible if the suspect waives the right to challenge them, even if unrepresented at the time." </font></font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 03, 2008 -->
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRYUAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVW" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Borrower Is Sued for Using Funds To Buy $400G Stadium Seats Instead of Repaying</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>"New York Jets football fan David Findel attracted more attention than he wanted when he paid $400,000 to buy the licenses for the two best seats in the new Giants-Jets stadium to raise his business profile."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p><!--commentsListSize 0--><!-- November 05, 2008 -->
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRYUAQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVY" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Cape May Municipal Judge Faces Ethics Charges For DWI Plea and Alcotest Antics</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>"Peter Tourison isn't the first judge to come up for discipline as the result of a drunken driving conviction, but he may be the first to have tried to beat the DWI rap by exploiting the foibles of New Jersey's new breath-testing device.</font></font><font size="2">
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