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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS STATE OF NEW JERSEY
ROBERT D. LIPSCHER CN·m7 ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COURTS TRENTON, NEW JERSEY 08625
To the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
I am pleased to present the annual report of the Judiciary for the 1988-89 court year. This was a difficult year, one of increasing case filings and growing backlogs. Yet it was also a year of decision and action. The determination to meet the needs of the Criminal courts due to increasing drug prosecutions, the ability to make substantial strides toward the goal of comprehensive statewide automation of case processing and record keeping, and the promise of an overall approach to complementary dispute resolution -- all of these show the continued willingness of our court system to strive for excellence.
This annual report is a testament to the enormous dedication and hard work of New Jersey's judges and court staff. Faced with growing burdens in all types of cases, they continue to attend to the individual needs of each case while still searching for ways to improve the court system as a whole. We are indeed fortunate to be working in one of the finest court systems of the nation. R~~S~~ You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library.
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ew Jersey\ coun ,y,tem parole for any person who distributes tic, ra,k force in each county to work has experienced a tremen or po'Sesses with intent to distrihute in conjuncrion with the statewide dous growth in its criminal drugs within 1,000 feet of any school narcorics ta,k force; N caseload in recent years. property ["safety zones"j, and • The development of reliable Responsible and effective manage significantly enhanced punishment for means for maintaining and patrolling ment of cases has been impeded by offenders previously convicted of drug school drug free "safety zones"; the surge in criminal arrests distribution offenses; The implementation of particularly drug arrests- since 19X7. • The loss of driving privileges programs and initiatives to enhance A front-runner in the campaign for not less than six months for all basic police patrol functions, targeted against drugs, New Jersey's law persons convicted of any drug-related narcotics investigations, and anti enforcement initiatives have been offense; smuggling efforts, as well as to reflected in President Bush's strategy • Mandatory drug enforcement identify and eradicate controlled to eliminate the distribution and use of and demand reduction penalties for all dangerous substance production illegal drugs throughout the nation. offenders, the funds from which will facilities; support drug prevention, education, • The de~elop'ment of programs and public awareness programs; to coordinate and expedite the New Jersey's Drug Abuse The re-examination and prosecution of drug offenses and amendment of criminal laws and offenders (uniform state guidelines Prevention Initiative regarding all plea negotiations in drug The sale and use of illegal drugs is cases); to streamline the trial process widely recognized as New Jersey's (the use of grand juries and speedy most serious law enforcement The courts are trial planning committees); and to concern. Recent estimates indicate ensure the uniform implementation that more than half of the crimes beyond their and judicial interpretation of the committed in the State are related to Comprehensive Drug Reform Act. controlled, dangerous substances, and • that illegal drugs cost New Jersey capacity to citizens at least $1.5 billion each year. In 1987, in response to Governor handle cases in The Effect of the Drug Kean's call for immediate action to Abuse Prevention combat the drug problem, the Legis a just and Initiative on the lature unanimously adopted the Comprehensive Drug Reform Act. timely fashion. Criminal Calendar The Act, one of the farthest-reaching The Drug Reform Act and the drug enforcement laws in the United Narcotics Action Plan have resulted in States, is based upon the strategy of practices so as to ensure prompt a marked increase in the number of focusing law enforcement efforts disposition of all drug-related criminal drug arrests, and a consequent against narcotics sellers and users at charges; and increase in the criminal caseload. "street level;" emphasizes a distinc The re-assignment or During 1988-89, there were 65,317 tion among drug offenders "based on appointment of additional personnel reported arrests of adults and juveniles the seriousness of the offense,. consi and procurement of equipment as for drug abuse violations, a 29% dering the nature, quantity, and purity necessary to enhance narcotics increase over the number of drug of the controlled substance involved;" enforcement programs. arrests reported in 1987-88. and provides for "strict punishment, The July 1987 enactment of the The problems the State criminal deterrence, and incapacitation" of the Comprehensive Drug Reform Act was courts are experiencing mirror those most dangerous offenders, and "the followed by the release of the nationwide. The current emphasis has rehabilitation of drug dependent Attorney General's Statewide been on law enforcement initiatives, persons." Major provisions of the Act Narcotics Action Plan, which has not resources, and the courts include: intensified substantially narcotics consequently are being overwhelmed • Mandatory penalties for a enforcement activity on the State, with new cases, far beyond their variety of narcotics offenses, county, and local levels during the present capacity to handle them in a including a three-year minimum term past two years. The Plan required: timely and just fashion. The courts of incarceration without possibility of • The establishment of a narco- disposed of a record 45,872 cases last
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year, but a total of 53,213 were filed. creased 23% over the past two years. than 52,000 pre- and post-indictment For the third consecutive year, filings During the 1988-89 court year, cases are active. have exceeded dispositions, and 103,000 indictable complaints were The caseload volume has immense pending caseloads have increased. filed, and 53,213 defendants were consequences for the criminal justice Indictable complaints filed in- indicted. In the criminal system, more system, which simply does not have the capacity and the resources to handle it. Currently about 67,000 defendants are on the street, without supervision or treatment, and for the guilty, without punishment. Since only Adult Criminal Drug Arrests two counties provide pre-trial January-June 1987-1989 supervision, about 23,000 fugitives fail to appear for court hearings or Thousands trials. Once tried if found guilty, 25.0 overcrowded prisons require that 22.5 18.2 18.5 effective alternatives to punishment be 20.0 17.5 developed. 15.0 The backlog of criminal cases has 12.5 grown to 12,400 indictments already 10.0 beyond the four-month time goal set 7.5 5.0 by the Supreme Court as a disposi 2.5 tional goal. Six thousand of these 0.0 cases already are a year old from day 1987 19BB 19B9 of indictment. Additionally, the back log of cases awaiting indictment for rn:l!lllposs ~ o Dist School I more than two months is 17,378, virtually double what it was just two years ago. In March 1989, the Chief Justice instituted a 90-day backlog reduction program and a short-term. stopgap transfer of 20 judges from the Civil to the Criminal Division. Adding judges alone, however, was not sufficient, INDICTMENTS since prosecutors and defenders 1985 - 1989 needed to be available to work in those courts. As part of the plan, the Thousands Attorney General agreed to transfer 13 ~ deputy attorneys general to local 55 prosecutors' offices, and the Public 45 Advocate received funds to hire 39 additional public defenders. 35 The goal of the program was to 25 reduce the case backlog by 2,200 drug cases in 90 days, with trial teams 15 commencing in May and June. Each 5 team received at least 110 drug cases 1985 19B6 19B7 19BB 19B9 to be disposed of. ~ Notwithstanding significant early lIlmII Filings 0 Terminations Backlog I concern regarding the possibility for success, the program exceeded all expectations (see accompanying chart on next page): 2,941 combined
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dispositions and warrants were 13 ..FIc grown to major rroportions. STATUS OF DRUG CASE BACKLOG REDUCTION PROGRAM September 8, 1989 # of Judges Weeks Dismissals Open Used Trials Pleas & PTI Warrants Total Essex 39 36 302 132 393 863 Hudson 36 6 253 21 9 289 Morris 12 1 101 22 4 128 Mercer 24 14 166 37 55 272 Passaic 39 33 231 21 46 331 Middlesex 26 23 151 37 40 251 Atlantic 13 18 66 17 3 104 Union 25 15 142 12 20 189 Gloucester 12 6 109 99 70 284 Ocean 14 11 87 13 16 127 Monmouth 8+ 3 58 20 22 103 Totals 248 166 1666 431 678 2941 • Monmouth ran program for 2 months and goat was 73 cases. 8 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. IDI1fl'10StllI atfldSlG ······~·········'I·g'ldWOC) :SflJOa COMPLEMENTARYYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. DISPUTE RESOLUTION eH' Jersey..clearly is at the forefront of dispute DISPUTE HESOLlJTION resolution in this coulltn, FeH' other states hal'(' the GRANTS PROGHAlvl di\'ersitv and the richness and the 1989 CASE DISPOSITIONS experience that vOU!' state has in dispute resolution programs. - Madeline Crohn President, National Institute for Dispute Resolution November 1987 meeting of New Jersey Task Force on Dispute Re solution Beginning in the mid-1970s, New Jersey offered its citizens a variety of Family programs providing options to the 1945 traditional court process: mediation of small claims cases by law clerks and Special Civil use of volunteer mediators to resolve * Statewide Total 5408 minor family and neighborhood disputes in the Municipal Courts; arbitration of smaller civil actions by along with the traditional adjudication, claims mediation programs, and experienced attorneys; use of an settlement, and negotiation matrimonial early settlement panels independent fact-finder to determine constitute the full range of dispute completed in 1988 by the Institute for habitability in landlord-tenant resolution methods, Social Analysis; two studies of disputes; and submission of civil and In the initial phase of its work, the custody mediation completed by matrimonial matters to panels of Committee surveyed a variety of Hahnemann University Hospital staff attorneys for settlement negotiation. dispute resolution techniques and in 1987 and by Dr. Kenneth Kressel of Such programs, however, had been assessed the need for such techniques Rutgers University in 1988; and an in developed and implemented locally, in those areas where none was depth evaluation of the New Jersey on an ad hoc basis. employed. In its second phase, Automobile Arbitration Program In May 1983, the Chief Justice through the support of a legislatively completed in 1988 by the Civil Justice appointed the Supreme Court Com funded Dispute Resolution Grants Institute of the Rand Corporation and mittee on Complementary Dispute Program, the Committee encouraged overseen by the Supreme Court Resolution Programs, chaired by the expansion of existing CDR Arbitration Advisory Committee. Justice Marie L. Garibaldi, to examine projects and the design and implemen existing alternative dispute resolution tation of additional innovative mechanisms and needs, and to plan programs. Supreme Court Task for the development of a compre During the 1988-89 fiscal year hensive program to operate within the alone, the Dispute Resolution Grants Force on Dispute court system as a complement to the Program provided $659,248 for 19 Resolution traditional adjudication process. projects in 11 Vicinages. Cases In October 1987, the Chief Justice The New Jersey Judiciary uses the processed during the year through appointed the Supreme Court Task term "complementary" dispute those 19 programs totalled 15,417 (see Force on Dispute Resolution, which resolution rather than the more widely accompanying chart). included members of the earlier known term "alternative" dispute The Committee also began a major Supreme Court Committee. Justice resolution because it views dispute evaluation of the effectiveness of the Garibaldi again chaired the effort. The resolution processes as complements programs developed under its Task Force was charged with building to the traditional trial processes rather auspices. Professional evaluations upon the seminal work of its than as alternatives. Collectively, included: a study of neighborhood predecessor Committee in presenting these complementary techniques- . dispute mediation programs, small a comprehensive framework for the 10 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. systematic and reasonable use of implementation, and monitoring of dispute resolution mechanisms. Appellate Division programs within each trial court To gain the benefit of the views of CDR Programs division. CDR program providers and of the Civil Appeals Settlement public, the Task Force held three Program (CASP): Started in 1981 public hearings in various regions of as an experiment, CASP continues the State. The Task Force studied today as a permanent program. Family Division programs in Civil, Special Civil, Appeals are screened by personnel in CDR Programs Family, and Municipal Court pro the Appellate Division Clerk's Office Early Settlement Panels grams and also techniques to organize to identify those suitable for confer (MESPs): Through the cooperation and test the potential programs. ences, e.g., negligence, professional of the JUdiciary and the Bar, early On October 21, 1988, the Supreme or products liability, contract, general settlement panels have been estab Court convened the 1988 Judicial equity, and landlord-tenant cases. lished in all 21 counties. The panels Conference to review the Task Force's Cases selected for the program are are composed of two or thtee experi work. That conference provided an conferenced by one of a group of enced matrimonial attorneys who opportunity for all attendees to discuss "CASP" judges-retired Appellate volunteer to mediate contested and debate the recommendations Division judges and one retired economic issues in dissolution cases made by the eight subcommittees. Supreme Court justice assigned on after a complaint has been filed, but Subsequent to the Judicial Con recall. More than 40% of the cases before the issues reach a judge. If an ference, the subcommittees recon selected for CASP settle at or sub issue is successfully mediated, the vened to assess and incorporate into sequent to the conference. Because panel's recommendation is submitted their reports the substance of the conferences occur before briefs are to the judge who has been assigned Conference discussions and the views filed, in cases that are not settled to the matter. of the Bar as set forth in various attorneys' time (and their clients' Custody/Visitation Mediation: position papers and reports. money) is saved as a result of CASP. Because custody and visitation dis The Task Force's draft final report, Comprehensive Justice Center: putes involve emotionally-charged released for public comment in June Developed and sponsored by the issues that do not lend themselves 1989 before being forwarded to the Supreme Court Committee on CDR, well to permanent resolution through Supreme Court, set forth the belief funded through the Administrative the usual adversarial process., most that "The New Jersey Judiciary should Office of the Courts, and supported counties have implemented or are provide citizens with a full set of by local Bar Associations, Compre developing some form of custody/ options for resolution of disputes, hensive Justice Centers began visitation program. In some counties, including traditional litigation as well operation in Burlington County in dissolution and nondissolution mat as various complementary forums, so May 1985 and in Hudson County in ters are handled, while in others only as to continue to fulfill the commit January 1988. Each center incor dissolution cases are mediated. Some ment to provide the highest quality of porates in one location a variety of counties use in-house mediators paid justice possible." CDR mechanisms, including: arbitra for locally while others offer the Implicit in that principle is the tion of all civil cases valued at litigants a choice to share the cost of understanding that in some instances $15,000 or less; custody, small employing outside mediators. justice will be best served by claims, and landlord-tenant media Custody/visitation mediation re providing opportunities to individuals tion; Municipal Court dispute resolu sults not only in saving of bench time and groups to resolve their disputes tion; and complex case resolution. at both the pre- and post-disposition without resort to a trial presided over In Burlington County, volunteer al phases, but, because of the parties' by a judge. On the other hand, dispute legal interns, social workers, and on active participation in the process, resolution programs should not be eall attorneys staff an intake unit and also in increased litigant satisfaction. used in circumstances where judges refer litigants to the appropriate Other programs: Crisis Inter would provide a better quality of dispute resolution mechanism, which vention Units, Juvenile Conference justice. The Task Force believes that may be a CDR program, the court, or Committees, Intake Diversion Pro complementary dispute resolution a social service agency. In Hudson grams, and Child Support Hearing techniques and the traditional adjudi County, an individual in the Trial Officer Programs all attempt to cation process, when viewed collec Court Administrator's Office is resolve disputes through a variety of tively, form a complete and integrated responsible for the development, mechanisms. 11 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. selected cases in which trial has been Since 1984 Passaic County social scheduled. Generally. negligence, workers who are knowledgeable in ~fj:i medical malpractice, and contract landlord-tenant law and have been don: In cases are bar panelled. trained in mediation techniques llnlijate, pilot In some counties, bar panelling is volunteer to provide resource infor :,i.d;f'those auto mandatory: in others, voluntary; in mation to displaced tenants and to ivbiche' the",_.,-non-__ some, it is a formal procedure mediate landlord-tenant cases. o i not exceed scheduled by the court before a In cases where habitability is at implemented in preassigned panel; in others, it is issue, the mediator obtains basic nd Union Counties informal, with counsel's having to information, advises the tenant to pay January 1984. Rules for create their own panels from the rent into court, and if the parties program were developed attorneys waiting in the courthouse. cannot agree on remedial measures, qpted by the Supreme Court in Law Clerk Mediation: This arranges for inspection of the pro 1 Durin.g the 1988-89 court year, program began in 1980 in Union perty and subsequent testimony by a more than 19,000 auto negligence County with a Court Clerk's con municipal building inspector. casell were disposed of through the ferencing pro se small claims cases. Landlord-Tenant Habitability program, Today, all counties offer mediation of Mediation: In Essex County, land Arbitration hearings are conducted certain Special Civil Part cases by lord-tenant cases in which defendants by pre-approved attorneys with seven law clerks trained in mediation raise the Marini habitability defense years' experience handling negli techniques. In some counties, the are handled by two full-time gence matters. Parties dissatisfied program is mandatory; in others, mediators, a housing specialist who is with the arbitration award have 30 voluntary; in some, only small claims available for housing inspections on a days to request a trial de novo, which cases are mediated, in others, per diem basis, and a law student is granted as a matter of right. landlord-tenant, or selected Special intern. Seventy percent of cases Although the trial de novo request Civil Part cases are eligible; in some, referred for mediation by the judge rate by the end of the 1988-89 court only pro se matters are eligible, while on the day of trial result in year was 47.69%, only 1.06% of all in others even cases involving one or settlements. cases arbitrated were tried, as most two attorneys qualify for the pro In Atlantic and Cape May settled in the interim. gram. Settlement rates differ from counties, two non-attorneys with Personal Injury Arbitration: county to county and from law clerk extensive experience in managing Tbis program began statewide in to law clerk. rental properties received mediation January 1989 in response to legis Law clerks are trained for this training from the Community Justice lation mandating arbitration of all program by experienced mediators Institute at Stockton State College personal injury cases valued at throughout the State in conjunction and mediate landlord-tenant cases in $20,000 or less. Over the first six with the AOC, and in Atlantic and which tenants raise the Marini months, 1,836 cases were disposed of Cape May counties through Stockton habitability defense. through the program. State College. Intermediate Special Civil Part "Pick-a-Judge" Programs: In Small Claims Settlement Pro Cases: Early settlement panels com several counties, attorneys in any gram: While the Burlington County posed of volunteer attorneys from the pending Civil case may submit the Comprehensive Justice Center trial bar are used in Cape May and entire dispute, or selected contested coordinates a law clerk mediation Atlantic Counties to help settle issues, to a judge of their choice for a program in small claims, it also Special Civil Part cases. On the day binding, nonappealable determination operates a program in which small of trial, parties present their cases after an abbreviated hearing. Clients claims cases are referred to volunteer before a panel of one attorney from must consent in writing to submission attorneys for settlement discussions, the plaintiff's bar and one from the of their dispute to these programs, S~ttlors take a more active role than defense's bar, who evaluate the case and all hearings must be heard in law clerks/mediators by recommend and suggest a settlement figure. open court. ing possible solutions and offering Approximately 66% of the cases are Bar Panelling: In many counties, legal insight while attempting to settled, with the remainder returning the Bench and Bar have established effectuate a settlement agreement. to trial. panels of one to four attorneys to Tenancy Settlement Mediation: conduct settlement conferences in 12 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. dispute resolution system within the • Mediation of small claims in the tion the programs take will depend in Judiciary. This ensures both that the Special Civil Part; large part on policy decisions of the disputants always will have ultimate • Mediation to intermediate tort and Court, resources available, and the access to a judge and that no dispute contract cases (where resources results of further testing. resolution program prevents that permit). access. The Task Force also emphasized The Task Force specified that a the need for training of third-party Programs Available to well-balanced complementary dispute neutrals: education of the Bar, the resolution process must: I) be as public, judges, and their court employ New Jersey Citizens accessible as possible to all disputants ees; and on-going monitoring, assess CDR programs can help to ensure and not favor one group or segment; ment, evaluation, and research of citizens' access to justice through the 2) protect the legal rights of all CDR programs. Also included in the most effective, least costly, and most participating disputants; 3) provide a 18 major policy recommendations in appropriate processes. Further, even fair and competent mechanism for the draft report were ones stressing the when CDR techniques do not resolve resolving disputes; 4) encourage the importance of confidentiality in the dispute, they nevertheless tend to confidence and respect of disputants mediation, the need for immunity and clarify the issues in contention and and the general public in the fairness, state-provided defense and indemnifi streamline their presentation if and integrity, and justness of the methods cation for attorneys serving as arbitra when the case comes to trial. It should by which disputes are resolved; 5) be tors, and setting forth the Task Force's be noted that most CDR programs an effective forum for the enforcement belief that funding for court-annexed depend upon attorneys and members of law, including formulating out dispute resolution primarily is a public of the general public who volunteer to comes in terms that are conducive to responsibility. serve as arbitrators and mediators. subsequent enforcement when neces The Task Force envisions the This involvement of the public in the sary; and 6) be as efficient as possible development of complementary dis work of the courts is one of the in terms of the cost and time required pute resolution programs as evolving benefits of CDR programs. of both the system and disputants. over the next several years. The direc- In its draft report the Task Force endorsed a variety of CDR programs Municipal Court Essex C()unty Bar Association for all for use in the Municipal, Family, and Municipal Courts in the county. Civil Courts, including the Special CDR Programs Community Justice Institute: During the past year, neighbor Civil Part, with the caveat that Particular to Atlantic County, the hood or community dispute resolu participation should be voluntary, with Institute is governed by a Board of tion programs disposed of more than the possible exception of an initial Directors nominated by County, Bar 5,000 cases that otherwise would session for purposes for education. Association, and Stockton State have gone to trial in the Municipal Among those programs endorsed College officials. Day-to~day opera Courts. This disposition figure has were: tions are conducted by a full-time remained constant over the past five • Municipal Court mediation pro executive director, and mediation is years. grams for the resolution of community handled by volunteers from faculty Citizen Panels: Two or more disputes; and staff at Stockton State and by volunteer mediators sit on panels • Statewide use of custody media attorneys in the County Bar (also referred to as Communitypis~ tion in the Family Courts, with further Association. pute Resolution Committees) to he~ study and evaluation: Full-Time County or Local eligible cases automatically ~fen-ed • Pilot tests using hearing officers Programs: Probation Department to the program by the court. Tbis in initial hearings in certain uncon personnel or Trial Court Admini model originally was. a pilot project tested domestic violence cases; strators provide staff and mediators in Camden and G'loueesterCoUinties. • Mediation, bar panelling, selec for these county-wide programs, Community Dispute R.ClS()lution tive trial programs, summary jury referrals to which are made from all Projects: SpeciaUy~train.edvolunteer trials, and mini-trials for Civil cases municipalities. Programs operate in attorneys trained as mediators (Statewide expansion of arbitration Bergen. Essex, Hudson, Mercer, and schedule mediation sessions up(lU programs beyond those required by Middlesex Counties. referral of cases from the Municipal statute should not be mandated with Courts. This model is operated by the out more study.); 13 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. 14 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. ·········;w;;.,I~i<~~'O ~!.lIt[flS HH~ THEYou're viewingSUPREME an archive copy from the NewCOURT Jersey State Library. The New Jersey Supreme Court (left to right, seated): Associate Justice Robert L. Clifford, Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz, Associate Justice Alan B. Handler; (standing) Associate Justices Marie L. Garibaldi, Stewart G. Pollock, Daniel J. O'Hero, and Gary S. Stein. he Supreme Court is New late court. a dissent in the Appellate Petitions for Certification Jersey's court of last resort. Division. or the imposition of a sen Most of the parties seeking Its seven members are tence of death to invoke the Court's Supreme Court reviewal' final judg T appointed initially to a appeal jurisdiction. Under the Rules of ments of the Appellate Division do so seven-year term and, upon reappoint the Court. a defendant who has been by petitioning for certification. Certifi ment, serve until age 70. sentenced to death has a direct appeal cation is granted under the following The Supreme Court's authority to the Supreme Court, bypassing circumstances: if the case involves a extends to the rules of procedure and normal Appellate Division review. matter of general public importance regulation of the practice of law and The Rules of the Court limit that has not been, but should be, discipline of judges and attorneys. appeals based on dissents to the issues settled by the Court; if the question is Cases arrive at the Supreme Court raised in the dissenting opinion. This similar to one already on appeal; if a by way of direct appeals, petitions for often results in matters having appeals lower court's decision conflicts with certification, interlocutory applica as of right only as to part of a case. another appellate decision or calls for tions, and in a very few instances, The overwhelming majority of the general supervisory powers of the petitions for the exercise of original cases in which an appeal as of right is Court; or if the interest of justice jurisdiction. filed (83 total cases during the 1988 requires it. 89 court year) claim the presence of The requirements for the grant of substantial constitutional questions. certification are applied strictly by the Appeals as of Right Of the 62 appeals dismissed by the Supreme Court. Certification was Appeals to the Supreme Court are Court during 1988-89, most were granted in 11 % of the cases presented permitted as of right in limited cir handled in a summary manner because to the Court during 1988-89, an cumstances. There must be a sub the Court found no substantial increase from the 9.5% in 1987-88. stantial constitutional question not questions within the meaning of the previously passed upon by an appel- rules and relevant case law. 16 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. Motions and Other Applications FILINGS AND DISPOSITIONS The Supreme Court disposed of 1,790 motions during the 1988-89 1985-1989 court term, an 18.9% increase over the prior year. These applications covered 1985 1986 a wide range of subjects. The most 1987 1988 1989 frequently filed motions involved Appeals requests for leave to appeal, for stays, filed 244 293 245 244 252 for extensions of deadlines, and for disposed 276 252 279 227 259 supplemental briefing schedules. In pending 170 211 177· 194 187 addition to litigated matters, the Certifications interlocutory application category filed 1053 ·1382 1382 1354 1482 included petitions filed in bar disposed 1025 1378 . 1411 1398 1472 admission matters, of which there pending 416 420 391 347 357 were 120 in 1988-89. Motions filed 1113 1224 1415 1541 1742 Attorney Discipline disposed 1086 1209 1444 1506 1790 The Supreme Court reviews pending 134 149 120 155 107 decisions and recommendations of the Discip1inaries Disciplinary Review Board. That filed 117 137 104 113 161 Board, in turn, reviews the actions disposed 114 129 102 122 124 taken by the various District Ethics pending 24 32 34 25 62 Committees. Total During 1988-89, the Supreme filed 2527 3036 3146 3252 3637 Court disposed of 124 disciplinary disposed 2501 2968 3236 3253 3645 matters, up 2% from 1987-88. pending 744 812 722 721 713 Filings and Dispositions Case filings (appeals, certifications, 10 petitions for certification, leaving a Opinion assignment is made by the motions, and disciplinaries) increased total of 357 pending as of June 30, Chief Justice if the Court is by 385 in 1988-89 for a combined 1989. Pending appeals at the end of unanimous or if the Chief Justice is in total of 3,637. At the same time, the 1988-89 court term numbered 187, the majority. In cases where the Chief overall dispositions for the term down seven from 1987-88. Disciplin Justice does not participate or is one amounted to 3,645, an increase of 392 aries increased by 37 to 62. Motions of the members of the minority, the over the previous year. pending decreased by 48 to 107. The opinion is assigned by the senior The Court's caseload of petitions Supreme Court's total dispositions Justice voting with the majority. for certification increased by 9%. reduced pending cases at the end of Upward of 20 opinions may be in Motion filings and dispositions the 1988-89 term by eight cases. circulation at any given time. Each increased substantially as well in Justice must be fully conversant with 1988-89. Certifications and motions every opinion before the Court, continued to lead all categories in Opinions Filed whether the opinion is a first or final filings and dispositions. Although considerable time and draft. Circulating opinions holds the effort is expended on discretionary highest priority at Court conferences, review matters, the opinions of the and every effort is made to insure that Pending Cases Court remain its most visible work. the decisions of the Court are truly Pending cases before the Supreme The Court, under the direction of the collegial in nature. Court increased in two of four Chief Justice, discusses each case at a During 1988-89, the Supreme categories. There was an increase of conference following oral arguments. Court filed 162 opinions (majority, 17 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. minority, and fler curiam), deciding 139 appeals and disciplinaries. The number of signed majority opinions OPINIONS FILED increased by five in 1988-89 to 73. Minority opinions increased in 1988 89 from 32 to 49. The balance of the opinions filed were per curiam. 100 Time to Decision '" Any given case can be disposed of promptly if there is consensus on the 50 L_~---+-----"" part of the members of the Court in volved. However, the decision process o -t------,-----,------.------.j in a multi-member court does not, if 1985 1986 1987 198B 1989 truly collegial determinations are sought, lend itself to the immediate I- -_. PER CURIAM --+- MINORITY '" MAJORITY --B-- TOTAL generation of full opinions in many cases. The complexity of the case and divergent views about the legal issues can combine to seriously affect the NUMBER OF ATTORNEYS timing of a disposition. The median time for disposition during the 1988 40,000 3B,640 89 court term was five months and / four days, up six days from the 1987 38,000 88 court year. 36,000 34,000 Professional 32,000 Responsibility The Supreme Court has constitu 30,000 tional responsibility for the integrity of the legal profession. It exercises 28,000 this responsibility through several offices, including the Office of 26,000 1985 1986 1987 19BB 19B9 Attorney Ethics. The increased work of this office is a reflection not only of the growing number of attorneys in New Jersey, but also of rising public Admission to the Bar to the Bar must pass both the Multi demand for high ethical standards and Lawyers are admitted to the Bar of state Bar Examination and the New accountability. New Jersey only after passing a State Jersey essay questions. Two examina The decade of the '70s produced a Bar Examination. The New Jersey tions were administered during the large increase in the attorney popu examination is given in February and 1988-89 term. The July 1988 passing lation in New Jersey. In 1969, there July to coincide with the national ad rate was 72.5%, down from 74.3% in were 10,348 members of the Bar ministration of the Multistate Bar 1987. The February 1989 passing rate admitted to practice. That figure more Examination. The essay examination was 66.9%, up from 59.2% in 1988. than tripled by the end of fiscal year is prepared and graded by the Board (Passing rates for summer 1989 when the attorney population of Bar Examiners and administered by examinations normally are higher reached 38,640, an increase of 2,619 the Clerk of the Supreme Court serv because the majority of law students attorneys over 1987-88. ing in his capacity as Secretary to the graduate in June and more individuals Board. Each candidate for admission who were unsuccessful on a prior bar • 18 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. examination take the winter examin ation. The likelihood of passing declines the more often the examin BAR EXAM PASSAGE RATE ation is taken.) New Jersey law school graduates continue to perform better on the State Bar Examination than those educated in other jurisdictions. 80 75 70 65 Trial Attorney 60 55 Certification 50 The goals of the trial attorney cer 45 tification program are to improve the 40 1/ -,-~/ -,--/ -,--/ -,--/ --- quality of trial advocacy and to inform 19B5 19B6 19B7 19BB 1989 the consumer about those members of the Bar who have achieved a certain m February 0 July I level of skill, knowledge, and experience in trial representation. The Board of Trial Attorney Certification, appointed in 1979, developed program written examination. The separate as civil and criminal trial attorneys. regulations and began accepting civil and criminal examinations, The Board certification is for seven applications in 1980. administered annually, are designed to years, after which the attorney must The certification process involves test the attorney's knowledge of trial apply for recertification. two steps. First, applicants must file practice, procedures, and tactics. Only During the 1988-89 term, 351 an extensive written application in those applicants who successfully attorneys were eligible for recerti order to establish their eligibility to sit complete an examination are recom- fication. Of that number, 293 were for the Board's examination. The application requires an applicant to list members of the Bench or Bar who can attest to the candidate's skills as a The opinions of the Court trial advocate. The form also requires detailed information on 10 substantial remain its most visible work. cases that the applicant has tried, and further requires that the applicant The Justices discuss each case demonstrate continuing current involvement in trial practice by listing at conference; all must be fully all cases tried or prepared for trial in the preceding three years. Finally, the conversant with every opinion applicant must demonstrate a commitment to continuing legal education by listing seminars attended before the Court. or taught and by describing other educational activities in the field of trial advocacy such as professional mended for certification by the Court. recertified, 13 were appointed to the committee work, authorship, and As of June 30, 1989, the Supreme bench, four died, and two retired from speeches. Court certified 795 civil and 261 the practice of law. Thirty-nine Attorneys whose applications are criminal trial attorneys. The total attorneys allowed their certification deemed sufficient by the Board are number of certified attorneys is less to lapse. permitted to participate in the second than the sum of these two figures step of the certification process: the because 59 attorneys are certified both 19 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. 20 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. THE APPELLATE DIVISION Herman D. Michels Mehin P. Antell Michael P. King Presiding Judge Presiding Judge, Part A Presiding Judge, Part B James J. Petrella Sylvia B. Pressler James H. Coleman, Jr. Geoffrey Gaulkin Presiding Judge, Part C Presiding Judge, Part E Presiding Judge, Part F Presiding Judge, Part G or most litigants, the year. A Presiding Judge administers it. After argument, or submission Appellate Division of the each part and a Presiding Judge for without argument, the judges consider, Superior Court is the court Administration is chosen by the Chief discuss, and decide each appeal. In F of last resort. The New Justice to oversee the entire Appellate most matters a written opinion is Jersey Constitution provides a right to Division. When in session, each part issued. In criminal appeals involving appeal to the Appellate Division from usually hears 12 to 16 appeals. The only the sentence imposed, briefing is final judgments of the Law and Presiding Judge of each part not permitted and ordinarily a Chancery Divisions of the Superior determines whether individual appeals decisional order is signed shortly after Court, as well as from final orders and are heard by two or three judges. oral argument. decisions of State agencies. In addition, interlocutory decisions of trial courts and State agencies may be reviewed by the Appellate Division if Over the last Caseload it grants a leave to appeal. The Court has been increasingly During the 1988-89 court year, 28 few years, the successful over the past few years at full-time judges, chosen by the Chief decreasing its backlog. During 1988 Justice from one of the trial divisions Court has 89, the Court again cleared its of the Superior Court, served in the calendar and reduced its pending Appellate Division. Additionally, five successfully de, caseload, despite an increase in recall judges were assigned to the appeals and motions. Appeals Division's Civil Appeals Settlement creased backlog. increased one-half (.5) percent while Program (CASP). motions increased 2.1 % over 1987-88. The full-time judges are organized The number of dispositions achieved into parts of four judges, and sit in The Court hears appeals without through the sentencing calendars and panels of two or three judges. The argument unless one of the parties CASP programs helped redu.:e the composition of the parts changes each requests argument or the Court orders time necessary for processing appeals. • -.. ------_------22 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. Appeals During the 1988-89 court year, CASE LOAD TRENDS 6,492 cases were added to the Appellate Division docket: 6,351 1985-1989 appeals filed, 138 reinstated, and three 6650 I ,+, remanded from the Supreme Court. 6500 The Division disposed of 6,531 6350 appeals, and had 5,106 pending. :~~~~'V- During the 1987-88 court year, 6,273 5900 appeals were filed, 174 were rein 5750 stated, and 11 were remanded; 6,494 5600 were disposed of, and 5,145 were 5450 pending at year's end. Over the past 5300 5150 five years, the Court has reduced 5000 :tl:-::-~~---,~--~--,------r-~~~---.j pending appeals by 703. 19B5 19B6 19B7 19BB 19B9 o Pending - +-. Terminalions -+- Filings I Motions In addition to the decisions on each appeal, the Court also must decide SOURCE OF APPEAL numerous motions. The motion decisions increased 24% since 1985. TAX During the 1988-89 term, the Appel 1% late Division decided 6,660 motions, compared with 6,389 the year before. STATE AGENCIES Differentiated Case 14% Management The Appellate Division continued to differentiate appeals for specialized treatment. Currently appeals are separated into six categories: civil LAW appeals settlement program (CASP), 72% sentencing, summary dispositions, pro se, extremely complex, and regular appeals. During 1988-89, the Appel MOTIONS DECIDED late Division Central Research Unit 1985-1989 continued its efforts to recruit more attorneys to draft legal memoranda, 7000 6794 particularly on cases with difficult 6600 issues and large records. 6600 6400 6200 Pro Se Appeals 6000 5600 Nearly 10% of the appeals filed 5600 during 1988-89 involved pro se 5400 litigants. Because pro se litigants 5200 cannot be presumed to know the rules 5000 of appellate practice, staff attorneys 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969 o Motions Fi led mm Motions Decided 23 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. and case managers carefully review decided by order totalled X16. months to onc year: 54(iL six months each document submitted. If the Seventeen hundred ten appeals were or less. document is deemed deficient. it is dismissed before calendaring. A Most of the appeals filed during the returned with detailed instruction on Supreme Court order directly certified 19XX-X9 court year came from the trial how it might be corrected. two matters. Criminal appeals ac divisions of the Superior Court. counted for 440/, of the cases decided. Method of Disposition Opinions Of the 6,531 appeals terminated Age and Source of Of the appeals decided by the during the 1988-89 court year, written Pending Appeals Court by opinion, 66% were decided opinions were issued in 3,611; At the end of the court year, 5,106 by two judges and 34% were decided summary orders accounted for 392 appeals were pending. Of those, 21 % by three. The decision on how many dispositions. Sentencing appeals were more than one year old; 25%, six judges sit on a matter is made by the Presiding Judge of the relevant part. CASP SETTLEMENT Civil Appeals 1985-1989 Settlement Program Authorized by the Supreme Court in 198 I, the Civil Appeals Settlement 650 625 Program (CASP) is part of an effort to 600 572 speed justice for litigants and to ease 575 the Court's heavy workload by using 550 Appellate Judges on a recall basis to 525 oversee pre-argument conferences. 500 475 Thirty-five percent of the Civil ap 450 peals selected for CASP were settled. 425 400 19B5 19B6 19B7 19BB 19B9 Sentencing Calendars U Number Setlled I Program Initiated during the 1983-84 court year, the program streamlines the processing of Criminal appeals in which the sole issue on appeal is the SENTENCING PROGRAM excessiveness of the sentence im 1985-1989 posed. The program since has been expanded to incorporate other 1,300 sentencing issues. 1,200 The Court reviews the record and 1,100 decides the matter without briefs, but 1,000 with the assistance of oral arguments. 900 All sentencing calendars are sound BOO recorded. After argument, the Court issues an order entering a final 700 disposition in the matter or setting the 600 matter down for a full briefing if it is 500 19B5 19B6 19B7 19BB 19B9 determined that additional issues exist in the appeal. During 1988-89, 816 appeals were terminated on sentencing Ii1IIIIIIl Terminated I calendars. 24 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. THEYou'reSUPERIOR viewing an archive copy from the NewCOURT Jersey State Library. New Jersey's Assignment Judges (left to right, seated); Judges Samuel D. Lenox, Jr., Wilfred P. Diana, Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz, Judges Martin L. Haines, Peter Ciolino; (standing) Judges Burrell hes Humphreys, Alvin Yale Milberg, A. Donald Bigley, Edward W. Beglin, Jr., Reginald Stanton, John A. ManuIli, Samuel G. DeSimone, Nicholas G. Mandak, Eugene D. Serpentelli, Richard J. Williams, AOC Director Robert D. Lipscher, Judge Herman L. Breitkopf. ilings continued to increase counted as the number of defendants Violence. Dissolution, and the "Other dramatically in the 1988-89 indicted. grew by 21 % from 1988 to Family" cases. Domestic Violence court year. More than 1989. The court system reacted to this caseloads grew by 10%, continuing a 960,000 cases were filed in onslaught of cases by transferring string of significant increases. In the the trial courts, a 6% increase over the judges from the Civil Division to last four years, these filings have year before The most dramatic Criminal. While Criminal dispositions increased by 79%. Dissolution filings increase occurred in the Criminal rose 17% as a result, the increase was grew by 6%, or by 33% over four calendar due to the huge rise in the not sufficient to keep pace with the years. The "Other Family" caseload, prosecution of drug cases. This rising number of cases. The Focus which includes abuse and neglect, continues the trend of the last several section (pages 5-8) on the crisis in the adoption, child placement review, years in which the calendars that show Criminal calendar and the onslaught juvenile/family crisis, and termination the most sizable increases are those of drug cases describes the problem of parental rights cases, experienced that consume the highest percentage and the courts' response. its largest increase-22% in one of judges' time-Criminal, Civil, Civil cases increased as well. After year-in abuse and neglect cases. Domestic Violence, and Dissolution. a 16% increase from 1987 to 1988, New Jersey's trial court judges are The effect of these increases is filings grew another 5% during 1989. working diligently to keep up with clear: more delays and greater The number of cases terminated in these increased demands. Productivity, backlog. Although the number of trial 1989 fell by 16%, due largely to the as measured by dispositions per judge, court dispositions rose to new heights, temporary assignment of judges to increased to an average of 3,029 cases the courts throughout the State cleared Criminal cases. As a result, at the end during 1988-89. Yet still the trial 96% of the 963,211 cases filed. The of the year the active pending courts continue to fall behind. There is shortfall (the number by which filings caseload in the Civil courts topped an urgent need for more judges, for exceeded dispositions. or, in other 160,000 cases. At the rate of more and better trained court staff, words, the growth of the pending dispositions during 1989, that figure and for the continued implementation caseload) grew by 39,000 cases. This represents another 15 1/2 months of of case management programs that shortfall is the highest of the decade, accumulated cases. This means that will make the processing of cases and the number of cases is five times the time of disposition for the average smoother for the court, the bar, and larger than in the past. 1988-89 Civil case (including dismissals, the litigants alike. The focus will marked the third consecutive year of settlements, etc.) was more than 15 remain on high quality results, so that shortfall. months at the end of the court year. the court system's work will continue The growth of the Criminal Other calendars that showed large to be a source of pride to New Jersey's calendar is most remarkable. Filings, increases in workload were Domestic judges, court staff, and citizens. 26 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. STATE TOTAL* CIVIL* 5 Year Summary 5 Year Summary Thousands Thousand. 165 1 155 855 L T =====-+ - 145 f ' 135 855 125 115 455 105 95 255 ~ ~._._ ~ ~ -~". _. ------_.. - - - - - _._ ------_.. -- _._ - - _•• -f- ---- •• ~:k! ~ I 55 Iii :: =-_.::: [ --Q- Added -+- Disposition - ..... A.ctive Pendinc ---G- Added ~ Olsposilion Active Pendinc 'On July I, 1988, civil cases began to be counted as added 'On July 1, 1988, civil cases began to be counted as added at the time the complaint was filed. Before this, cases at the time the complaint was filed. Before this, cases were counted as added at the time of first answer. were counted as added at the time of first answer. Obviously, this artifically inflates increases in Obviously, this artifically inflates increases in statistical measures between the 1988 and 1989 court years. statistical measures between the 1988 and 1989 court years. 1988-89 STATEWIDE TOTALS 1988-89 CIVIL VICINAGE ACTIVE FalNGS TERMINATIONS COUNTY l'D.INGS TERMINATIONS PENDINO PEIlJUDGB PEIlJUDGB 1 ATLAI"'lTIC 5,781 4,~8 4,219 1,482 1,1.16 EAL'- 463 ] CAPBMAY 1,146 1,020 92l 1,146 1,020 2 BERGEN 18,on 14,H8 13,778 1,329 L,070 a 1,277 ] r 3 llUllLlNGTOIf 4,341 4,747 4,90:Ii 1,793 1,7n [GENERAL EQUITY 431] 4 CAMDEN 12,270 10,361 12,9B t,636 1,381 , , ,, , l BSSBX 16,948 10,333 32,900 1,378 340 ISPECIAL CNn. 443,1j8 438,673 43,103 25,469 2.1,211 6 JIUDSON 11 ,110 13,082 9,jtt L,984 2,336 7 MBIlCBIl 6,900 :Ii,8n 8,154 1,683 1,429 IFAMn.V )07,099 302,.508 48,169 4,325 4,261 3 MIDDLESEX 1.1,233 1.1,.126 17,9.14 t,360 1,386 DISSOLUTION 40.436 40,625 17,212 - - 9 MONMOUTH 11.027 9,967 11,18.1 1,470 1,329 10 MORRIS .1,817 .1,293 6,076 1,38S t,260 NON-DISSOLUTION 101,Xl2 99.673 7,249 - - SUSSBX t,107 902 1,039 1,84.1 1,.103 DELINQUENCY 117,179 114,934 11,8]0 - - II PASSIAC 10,669 8,.1.14 10,927 1,693 1,3.18 12 UNION 9,695 7,310 10,069 1,763 1,329 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 32,851 32,605 788 - - HUNTElIDON 940 416 1,1.19 1,343 594 13 SOMBIlSET 2,941 2,211 2,407 1,279 961 OTHER FAMR.Y 15,131 14,671 11,090 - - WAAAEN 693 551 723 1,]86 1,102 ~I !MISCELLANWUS 4,l25 c:o -I 14 OCEAN 6,]16 .1,436 6,470 1,404 1.203 CUMBERLAND 1,948 1,8.12 2,0.12 1,771 t,684 ITOTAL EI 924,157 c::G 3,029\ 15 GLOUCBSTU 3,025 2,141 3,.133 1,163 323 SALBM 313 502 49l t,710 1,673 TOTAL 146,993 IH,l28 160,484 1,.100 1,277 27 ~, "m, You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. CRIMINAL FAMILY DIVISION 5 Year Summary 5 Year Summary Thousands Thousands 60 : 350 ~ 50 , 300 ~ 250 40 I", , 200 I" 30 : 150 I········· - 20 I -- -::: -- ...... ------.------.----- 100 10 : 50 ______~_ ....-:::'.:: ______"':': -- _::: :":-:4 ..,;-.:; '::":'-'-':" :."-~ :.--~--.:-:.- .;;.- ""';;.'--'~:;; .;,;-;:--'- - -,-- _ ... - 0 0 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969 _ ..,- --- Added -----+- Disposition - ..- Active Pending , --- Added -----+- Disposition Active Pending I I I 1988-89 CRIMINAL 1988-89 FAMILY VICINAGE ACTIVE fILINGS nllMINAnONS VICINAGE ACTIVE fILINGS nllWlNATIONS COUNTY fILINGS nllMlNATJONS PENDING PER JUDGE PER JUDGE COUNTY fILINGS nllMlNATJONS PENDING PER JUDGE PER JUDGE I ATLANTIC 4.104 4,197 1,029 933 9~4 I ATi.ANTIC" 13,792 13,.548 I,CH .5,30.5 .5,211 CAPE NAY 9'" 728 211 1,293 1,040 CAPE NAY C,8B 4,61.5 ~46 4,815 4,615 2 BEllGDl .> 2,316 2,334 838 ~13 31~ 2 BERGDl 24,6n 24,123 2,111 4,6H 4,66.5 , 6URLINGTON 1,116 855 ~4~ 413 311 , 6URLINGTON 14,H7 14,111 2,013 .5,311 .5,Hl 4 CAMDEN ',992 3,12.5 94~ ~62 ~2~ 4 CAMDEN' 21,131 26,166 3,219 .5,6n 5,451 , ESSEX 9,641 1,848 6,110 318 422 ~ ESSEX 44,1.56 44,301 5,931 4,600 4,615 6 HUDSON 4,198 3,105 1,365 '89 34' 6 HUDSON 25,681 24,632 4,134 5,131 4,926 1 WERCER 2.145 2,9,53 1,403 ~'8 H9 1 WERcER 16,838 17,066 3,173 3,916 3,969 8 MIDDLESEX 4,81.5 2,867 2,6053 119 428 • WIDDLESEX 16,209 1.5,989 3,7.58 2,947 2.901 9 WONMOUTH 3.t2.5 2,619 1,.526 ~19 48~ 9 MONMOUTH 16,.511 16,.541 3,02.5 3,014 3,001 10 WOIlRIS 2,187 1.4.57 922 134 S02 10 MOIlRIS 8,941 8,94.5 1,491 2,196 2,19.5 ',' SUSSEX "4 '6 11 22,7.51 4,812 11 PASSIAC 2,648 2,.591 1,21.5 '6' '" PASSIAC 22.616 3.301 4,841 12 UNION ',898 3,144 1.234 ~82 469 12 UNION 17,777 17,.582 2,601 3,06.5 3,031 HUNTERDON 44~ 406 18' 6'6 no HUNTElIDON 2,343 2,324 403 3,341 3,320 13 SOMEIlSET .5,116 .5,243 610 4,313 4,369 " SOMERSET 861 132 2" 482 401 WAIlREN 620 4~1 424 689 SOl WAIlREN 2,812 2,840 431 4,103 4,0.51 14 OCEAN 1,.521 1,343 19' 661 n4 14 OCEAN 10,199 10,403 2,134 3,212 3,1.52 CUMBERLAND 1,614 1,691 S01 1,046 1,0.51 CUMBERLAND 14,96.5 13,.5.5.5 4,4.56 12,411 11,296 13 9,304 15 GLOUCESTER 1,061 1,0H 481 342 '40 GLOUCESTER 9,209 1,314 4,430 4,38.5 ~ t SALEM 1,003 811 136 1,003 811 SALEM 4,601 4,HO 608 1,618 7,.583 ,i ~ TOTAL 053,21.5 4.5.812 23.039 ~42 468 TOTAL 307,099 302,S08 48,169 4,32.5 4,261 ' , ~ 28 l1li. You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. GENERAL EQUITY SPECIAL CIVIL 5 Year Summary 5 Year Summary Thousands 10 Thousands 500 ,,------.,------.,------, , I 6 400 ~.",..-m-mf ..·.·...... mm .. ,...." ~ T r j 6 300 , , ~--- ~ ------, ...... 200 -I 2 100 --~ ------.... ------..... _------o o I . 1905 1906 1907 1900 1909 1965 1966 1967'i1966 1969 + [ -a- Added -+- Disposition - --. Active Pending I [ -- Added Disposition . -"- Active Pending I 1988-89 GENERAL EQUITY 1988-89 SPECIAL CIVIL VICINAGE ACTIVl' I'ILINGS TEIIMINATIONS VICINAGE ACTIVE FILINGS TERMINATIONS COUNTY FD.INGS TEJU.fiNATIoNS PENPING PERJl100E PER J'lJi)Gll COUNTY FD.INGS TERMINATIONS PENDING PER JUOOE FERJl100E I ATLANTIC 392 381 171 261 258 I ATLANTIC 11,492 17,413 1,626 43,730 43,n3 CAPE NAY 22() 221 83 2,200 2,210 CAFE MAY 4,.568 4,ji08 384 0,227 1.5,027 2 HEllGm 744 733 517 413 419 2 BEllGEN 37,114 37,479 3,417 14,846 14,992 3 BURLINGTON 477 428 299 477 428 3 BURLINGTON 16,407 16,231 1.869 54,690 .54,103 4 CAMDEN 468 469 166 520 521 4 CAMDEN 24,737 24,544 1,489 U,H9 35,063 5 ESSEX 844 634 721 422 317 5 ESSEX 89,264 88,370 9,203 22,316 22,093 6 HlJDSON 483 433 269 439 394 6 HlJDSON 41,771 41.109 2,902 26,107 2ji,693 7 MERCU 297 319 81 594 638 7 MERCER 17,975 17,905 996 22,469 22,381 8 MIDDLESEX 573 564 387 339 3" 8 MIDDLESEX 31,168 30,442 2,606 28,3H 27,61ji 9 MONMOUTH 673 679 397 748 734 9 MONidOUTH 28,1n 27,92ji 2,774 ji6,304 H,8W 10 MORlllS 412 418 183 373 380 10 MORRIS 17,155 17,242 1,609 34,310 34,484 SUSSEX 143 149 66 - - SUSSEX· 4,HI 4,614 512 22,655 23.010 II PASSIAC 367 288 277 367 288 I 11 PASSIAC 21,628 26,831 2,112 21,2ji2 20,639 12 UNION 357 330 247 397 367 12 UNION 31,283 30,908 4,211 34,1ji9 34.342 HUNTEIIDON 125 132 41 - - HUNTEIlOON 2,881 2,664 m 14,405 13,320 13 SOMERSl'T 214 225 72 713 750 13 SOMERSET 8,9H 8,952 868 17,906 11,904 WAllIlEN 82 75 37 - - WAllIlEN 2,102 2,12ji 277 13,jilO 13.625 14 OCEAN 656 594 374 656 594 14 OCEAN 19,909 19,628 2,649 28.441 28,040 CUMBERLAND 154 145 68 770 725 CUMBEJUAND 1,626 1,ji96 1,098 38,130 37,980 15 GLOUCESTER 190 175 65 475 438 15 GLOUCESTER 9,401 9,079 976 23,518 22.698 SALEM 37 31 36 - - SALEM 2,435 2,S08 228 24,350 25,080 TOTAL 1,910 1,4~1 4,551 485 457 TOTAL 443,H8 438,613 43,103 25,469 25,211 29 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. 1988-89 MISCELLANEOUS VICINAGE ACTIVE FU~INGS TERMINATIONS COUNTY FILINGS TERMINATIONS PENDING PER JUOOE PER JUDGE 1 ATlANTIC l7l 171 14 - CAPE MAY 208 212 I. - - 2 BEllGEN' "0 ". 14' 700 7" , 94 I,OX> 1,0.0;1 Bt,lRLINGTON III ". 4 CAMDEN '" '" 200 918 811 MISCELLANEOUS>:- I ESSEX 2.7 24' 102 181 147 5 Year Summary • HUDSON 244 "7 122 1,220 1,IS.'i Thousands 7 MERCEll II. ", 42 1,680 1,755 6,------,------, 1 MIDDLESEX '"0 14' 109 1,900 1,105 5 9 MONWOUTR 427 117 '" 1,423 1,123 4+························· .... 3 -j . '0 MOIllllS '\l 297 III 1,043 990 SUSSEX 170 Il9 " 1,100 1,.'i90 2+················································ ------~ ------'* --..---..-...... I II PASSlAC 201 178 8. 1,015 890 12 UNION 221 208 97 717 .91 O+------,------;------,------j 1985 1988 1987 1988 1989 HUNTEIlOON 144 11. " - - +- .. Disposition ..... - Active Pending II SOMERSET '20 112 44 1,200 1,120 I --- Added I WARIlEN \l4 112 49 1,340 1,120 ::. Municipal Court Appeals, Post Conviction, Probate. Surrogate ,4 OCEAN HI 211 III I" 7m CUMBERLAND 72 74 H - - II GLOUCESTER 19 " '" 890 7'" SALEM 44 44 " - - TOTAL 4,836 4,.51.5 1,712 1,]2.5 1,0,52 COMPOSITION OF FILINGS THE STATE Dissolulion 4.2% 12.2% Non~Dissolulion Special Civil 46% 10.5% Domeslic Violence 3.4% Other Family 1.6% Equity 0.8% Civil 15.3% 30 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. THEYou're viewingTAX an archive copyCOURT from the New Jersey State Library. The New Jersey Tax Court (left to right, seated): Judge Michael A. Andrew, Jr., Presiding Judge Lawrence L. Lasser, Judge Anthony M. Lario; (standing) Tax Court Clerk Wesley LaBar, Judges Roger M. Kahn, David E. Crabtree, Marvin N. Rimm, John J. Hopkins, and Peter D. Pizzuto. he Tax Court of New Jersey professionals: and 4) to promote the totalled 4.627. including 600 Superior is a trial court with state development of a qualified and Court. resulting in an inventory of wide jurisdiction to hear informed State and local tax bar. 4.475 cases at year's end. The Court T matters relating to State and In addition to hearing Tax Court ex perienced a 37.gel overall increase local tax assessments. The Court cases, the six judges assigned to the in new cases during the year. reviews the actions and determina Tax Court from time to time hear Caseload by type: Of the cases tions of assessors and county boards Superior Court cases, many of which filed. 94% involved local property tax of taxation with respect to local are tax-related. cases and 6% State tax and Equaliza property tax matters, and of all State tion Table cases. Of the local property officials with respect to State taxes. tax cases, 60% were regular cases and The Tax Court was established by Caseload 40% were small claims. The 4,231 the Legislature to afford taxpayers a June 30, 1989, ended the Tax local property tax new filings prompt and impartial hearing and Court's tenth year. At its inception in represented a 63% increase over the disposition of their disputes with 1979 the Court assumed a case inven number filed in 1987-88. This governmental taxing agencies by a tory of 26,000 cases, more than half of substantial increase was due to a qualified body of judges. The which were over two years old. At the recent flattening of the real estate objectives of the Tax Court are: I) to close of the 1988-89 court year, only market. Forty-six percent of the State provide expeditious, convenient, 6.4% of pending cases were more than tax cases involved Homestead tax equitable, and effective judicial two years old. rebates, 44% were regular State tax review of state and local tax At the beginning of the 1988-89 matters, and 10% were Equalization assessments; 2) to create a consistent, court year, the Tax Court had an Table cases. uniform body of tax law for the inventory of 2,532 Tax Court and Dispositions: Eighty nine percent guidance of taxpayers and tax Superior Court cases. Tax Court cases of the local property tax cases were administrators, in order to promote and miscellaneous tax applications disposed by motion, settled. or with predictability in tax law and its filed, along with Superior Court cases drawn, and II % were tried to comple application; 3) to make decisions of assigned to Tax Court judges, totalled tion; 64% of the State tax and the Court readily available to tax 6,570, aggregating a total case Equalization Table cases were payers, tax administrators, and tax inventory of 9, I 02. Dispositions disposed. settled, or withdrawn, and 32 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. 36% were tried to completion. At the end of the court year, pending were 4,186 local property tax cases, 199 NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS FILED State tax cases, and 4 Equalization Table cases. IN EACH FILING FEE CATEGORY Local Appeals from Tax Court Properly Tax During the 1988-89 court year 41 ! II 4224 Tax Court decisions were reviewed by Slale Tax the Appellate Division, which took the following actions: affirmed, 26; Equal. affirmed in part, reversed in part, and & relaled remanded, 1; reversed, I; reversed and remanded, 2; remanded (settled), 1; Tolals dismissed 9; dismissed and remanded 4360 (settled), 1. o 500 1000 1500200025003000 3500 4000 4500 5000 The Supreme Court denied certi ~ fication in 10 Tax Court cases, denied Small Claims IHlm Regular 0 Tolals I leave to appeal in one, denied motion for direct certification in another; 2 petitions for certification were with CHARACTER OF COMPLAINTS drawn and one stipulation of dismissal was filed. The Court took the follow ~alProperryTax Vacant Land 342 ing actions in nine cases: affirmed. 2; Residential 1,128 affirmed in part, reversed in part. and Farmland 47 remanded to the Court, 1; reversed, 1; Commercial 1,154 reversed and remanded to Tax Court, Industrial 367 2; dismissed, 2; withdrew, 1. Multi-Family 654 Property type not stated in complaint 539 TOTAL 4,231 Judges Cases other than local properry tax Tax Court judges are appointed by a. State tax the Governor for an initial seven-year Corporation 13 term, and upon reappointment receive Emergency transportation I tenure for life. The Tax Court main Gross income 31 tains courtrooms and chambers in Homestead rebate 114 Inheritance tax 12 Newark, Trenton, Camden, and Media Rights I Atlantic City for the convenience of Motor fuels sales 2 taxpayers. The judges also hear cases Motor fuels use I in New Brunswick, Morristown, Public utility franchise 2 Somerville, Flemington, Freehold, Sales & use 44 Solid waste I Toms River, and Newton. The judges Spill compensation I meet monthly to discuss substantive Miscellaneous I and procedural developments in the TOTAL 224 tax field. Each judge is assigned a court b. Equalization and related clerk, who performs court duties and Equalization (County) 2 Table of equalized valuation operates courtroom sound recording (School aid) 21 equipment. In March 1989, four Order to revalue 3 judges attended the National Confer TOTAL 26 ence of State Tax Court Judges TOTAL-ALL COMPLAINTS 4,481 seminar. 33 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. f Office of the Clerk of the of property for assessment purposes. improvements plus the value or the Value for assessing purposes is fair land: and 3) income approach. which Tax Court market value: the price that would be estimates value based on capitaliza The Office of the Clerk is the paid by a willing purchaser for all of tion of the income produced by the l administrative arm of the Tax Court. the rights in the real estate and property. Its staff provides the support services accepted by a willing seller if neither Local property tax cases sometimes ~I necessary for efficient trial court were compelled to buy or sell. The involve a claim of discrimination. In operation, including acceptance of I fair market value standard is used to such cases the Court follows legal j fi Iings; case assignments; preparing achieve the uniformity in assessment principles established by the Supreme calendars, judgments, and transcripts; required by the State Constitution. Court in In re Appeals of Kents 2124 r statistical reporting; and maintenance The Tax Court applies the Atlantic Ave., Inc.. 34 N.J. 2 I (1961), t of accurate case inventory and valuation principles required by and Murnick ~'. Asbury Park. 95 NI tracking systems. The staff provide statute and the Constitution, and 452 (1984), as well as statutory taxpayers. attorneys, and administra ! determines fair market value by provisions granting relief from tors with information regarding court application of such of the three discrimination contained in N.J.S.A. I procedures, court opinions, and the approaches to value as may be 54:51A-6 (chapter 123 of the Laws of \ review of tax assessments. presented in evidence and deemed 1973). appropriate by the Court: I) sales r comparison approach, which estimates Standards and Principles value based on sales of comparable Publication of Opinions Used by the Tax Court property; 2) cost approach, which Summaries of opinions approved Local property tax cases generally estimates value based on construction for publication are published in the involve a determination of the value costs less depreciation of the New Jersey Law Journal. "Slip" opinions are produced and made available by the Administrative Office DOLLAR AMOUNTS AT ISSUE of the Courts. West Publishing Company publishes the opinions in I. Dollar amount of original local New Jersey Tax Court Reports and property tax assessments contested issues advance sheets prior to in complaints med with the Tax Court $15,120,623,680.00 publication of these reports. Volume 10 of New Jersey Tax 2. Dollar amount of state tax assessments Court Reports will be published in the contested in complaints med with the Tax Court $10,625,182.81 near future. New Jersey Tax Court Reports contain State and local tax By Type of Tax opinions and Appellate Division Business personal property $51,961.00 opinions which decided appeals from Corporation business 1,229, II 1.93 Tax Court decisions. The Appellate Emergency transportation 281.00 Division opinions included in New Gross income 983,910.09 Jersey Tax Court Reports are those Homestead tax rebate * Inheritance tax 366,554.69 which were not published in Superior Media rights 61,639.70 Court Reports but are published in Motor fuels sales 779,210.74 Tax Court Reports to complete the Motor fuels use 404,281.18 record. Public utility franchise * Sales & use 6,499,231.66 Solid waste 160,272.24 Spill compensation 88,728.58 This report is adapted from the Miscellaneous * Annual Report of the Presiding Judge of the Tax Court submitted to the .. No contested tax figures ShOWll ill complaint. ChiefJustice ofthe Supreme Court of New Jersey pursuant to N.J.S.A. New Jersey real property tax assessments in 1988 for all taxing 2A:3A-24. districts totaled $272,229,127,668. The $15,120,623,680 in contested assessments is 5.6% ofthis amount. 34 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. OJ THE MUNICIPALYou're viewing an archive copy from the NewCOURTS Jersey State Library. 'I The Paterson Municipal Court was une of 73 courts which implemented the computerized Autumated Traffic System (ATS) for the prucessing of parking and traffic violatiuns during the 1988-89 cuurt year. ew Jersey citizens, as body in some municipalities. In joint Administration defendants, witnesses, or courts, appointment is made by the The Superior Court Assignment complainants. most likely Governor, with advice from and con Judge, as chief judicial officer in each are to have direct contact sent of the Senate. Municipal Court Vicinage, has plenary responsi bility with personnel in the Municipal judges serve for a term of three years for the administration of the Courts. These 535 courts of limited and until their successor is appointed. Municipal Courts. jurisdiction dispose of in excess of 6.5 Following the recommendations of million cases and collect and the 1985 Judicial Conference on distribute more than $232 million in Municipal Municipal Courts, the Supreme Court fines and fees during a court year. established in four Vicinages the The Municipal Courts have juris Courts disposed concept of Presiding Judges, selected diction over traffic and parking from among sitting Municipal Court violations, local ordinance violations, of 6.5 million judges. The Presiding Judges coordi disorderly and petty disorderly nate the management, oversight, and persons offenses, certain penalty cases and col... training of the Municipal Court judge enforcement actions (such as fish and and support staff, and report to the game violations), and probable cause lected $232 Assignment Judges. hearings on indictable offenses .. The territorial jurisdiction of these million during courts generally extends to the boundaries of each municipality, but the year. Caseload 16 of the 535 courts are inter Nine of every 10 Municipal Court municipal or joint courts serving more Municipal Court judges have no cases involve traffic offenses. More than one municipality. tenure and are not required to retire at than half the cases deal with parking a mandatory age, characteristics which tickets and one third with moving distinguish them from all other judges violations. Judges in the Judiciary. Ten percent of the cases are on the Municipal Court judges are The vast majority of Municipal Criminal calendar and half of those appointed by the Mayor, with the Court judges serve only part-time and involve disorderly persons and petty advice of the councilor governing maintain private law practices. disorderly persons offenses. 36 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. Appeals Revenues Courts, in conjunction with the Appeals from the Municipal Courts The Municipal Courts collected Supreme Court Committee on Muni are heard in the Superior Court, Law and disbursed more than $232 million cipal Court Education, emphasized Division, as cases de novo. However, during the 1988-89 court year. Most of education and training of Municipal since the introduction of sound these monies were disbursed to State, Court judges, administrators, and recording in the Municipal Courts, the county, or municipal agencies. clerks during the 1988-89 court year. Superior Court judge rehears the case At the Judicial Conference for by review of the Municipal Court Municipal Court Judges, noted transcript and supplemental oral authorities and panelists addressed the arguments by the attorneys or pro se Education and Training cause of problems and the treatment appellants. This method of retrial has The Court Operations Unit of the and rehabilitation of defendants with reduced time devoted to Municipal Municipal Court Services Division of alcohol and drug dependency. An appeals. the Administrative Office of the Alcohol/Substance Abuse Project MUNICIPAL COURT REPORTS CASE FLOW SUMMARY TOTAL CASELOAD 143,649 636.5 12 587,485 335,551 196,600 194,207 27,345 266.509 234,942 103,080 1 J!E!t ~111:j ~I El ~II@ ~I -~-'--"-""'-"-'-'-"--"--- 131,688 126,687 28,309 0 59,288 61,587 5,336 Total Traffic Parki... Movinl D1fI Criminal Indictable DP IDDP Other ViolaHoD Cbules ChUIe8 1,045,369 914,458 492,769 - _ 66 111J1/GS ~ 66 TERMINATIONS 95,253 92,114 I 17,050 EJ 69 111J1/GS ~ 69 TERMINATIONS 1,458,627 1,573,542 I 2,127,669 59,912 57,641 I 10,890 274,174 287.337 I 80,798 DISTRIBUTION OF 407,402 388,174 209,089 339,211 63,670 REVENUES 264,094 78,912 Millions 120.0 ~ " '110,8 206.645 40,023 110,0 ' 100.« 100.0 285,799 138,349 90.0 60.0 46,670 42,722 I 11,866 70.0 60.0 111.010 109,256 17,366 50.0 40.0 30.0 41,833 41,673 5.544 I 20.0 10.0 3'l5,590 .'20,479 0.0 1966 1969 58,104 58,497 7,530 ~DWV ~ 6.589,646 4,465,274 !_VCCD EJ COUNTY IfUNlc.1PAL marnER I 37 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. included one-day seminars for handl Computerization ing, statewide ATS database contains ing drug-related cases. Mandatory During 1988-89, the Division's significant information regarding two-day orientation was held for 33 newly-established Court Automation defendants who have had warrants newly-appointed Municipal Court Section converted 73 Municipal issued for their arrest for failure to judges, and regional management and Courts processing 31.8% of the state answer or appear in response to a traf training seminars were offered for wide parking and traffic caseload vol fic summons. This information is used court executive personnel and court ume to the computerized Automated by both Municipal Court staff and law clerks. Traffic System (ATS), exceeding its enforcement personnel as part of the first year goal of 56 courts and 3\ % of first statewide electronic traffic war the caseload. Additionally, the grow- rant system in New Jersey's history. I 38 FiiM LM i.L 4!ii!ii¥Ai!i.;;m::;;;MiiUiii;iAiPM;;;;g;;tU. mO.. 11#;:; .. ;1;#:: tiSiI .iiiiLAMUii;ijI .. i4AA ... itui4uiJ.tJ ; it Ji.. t! ii. is 2tt t2 iE J2 r You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey1 State Library. ATLANTIC, CAPE MAY COUNTIES Richard J. Williams Assignment Judge Charles E. McCaffery Trial Court Administrator any of the Vicinage's efforts during the '88- '89 court COMPOSITION OF FILINGS M year were focussed in the Delinquency 16.2% area of Human Resources. A quarterly goal-setting process was established Miscellaneous 076% for all court managers and a perfor Special Civil 41.2% mance evaluation program modeled on the State civil service program was implemented for all judicial staff. Non-Dissolution 10.8% • The Trial Court Administrator's Office was reorganized into six Domestic Violence 3.5% divisions: budget and purchasing, Olher Family 1.5% facilities and courtroom services, Criminal 9.3% jury management. finance, human Equily l.l % resources, and automation. Prior to the Civil 12.9% establishment of a division of finance, a Vicinage court-held funds policy was developed by a task force of court ment phase of the Automated Case Automated Traffic System (ATS) was managers and county financial offi Management System (ACMS) was implemented in 10 additional munici cers. fully implemented in the Civil Divi pal courts. • Automation efforts continued in sion, preparations were made for the • Offices were established for every division. Most significant was conversion to PROMIS/Gavel in the Probation Department personnel. the implementation of the Family Criminal Division, enhancements •A three-day leadership develop Automated Case Tracking System were made to the Automated Child ment training series for court mana (FACTS) and of direct filing for Support Enforcement System gers and supervisors was begun. dissolution cases. The case manage- (ACSES) in Probation, and the 40 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. ATLANTIC, CAPE MAY COUNTIES Vicinage Retreat 5 Year Summary For two days each Fall, judges and key managers in the ~T:h::o:::.u::.:a:n:::d::.:.- ~ ~ Atlantic/Cape May Vicinage meet informally for "about-the 60 __ --:- --, job" training by nationally-known court management person 50 nel. 40 _•• ------••- ••.•.••.,.••• , ••.•.• ,,, - ••• -- The two-day seminar is held at Stockton State College dur ing Labor Day week, and a specific topic is discussed at each 30+'" c . seminar in large and/or small group settings. The first of the 20 seminars, in 1986, coincided with the beginning of Judge 10 t· - ~ .....;... 1 Richard J. Williams's tenure as Assignment Judge. "We recog nized that we spent a lot of money sending people away to o I I i I 1965 1966 1ge7 1gee 1ge9- courses, and that for the same amount we could bring in nationally-known speakers for presentations to all our judges ...... Filings - ... - Dispositions -+- Active Pendinc and court managers on specific subjects of interest," said Trial Court Administrator Charles McCaffery. "The costs for travel ·Please gee foolnole on counting lD.elhod for civil cases on page 27. Getting judges and managers ACTIVE FILINGS TERMINATIONS together in training breaks down Fll.ING8 TEllMINAnONS PENDING PE.KJUOOE PERJUlXlE the mystique among the groups. ClllMlNAL 4,104 4,191 1.029 935 9'4 90' 12" 271 1,293 1,040 CIVil- S.781 4,"'" 4,219 1,482 1,,,~ I and sustenance for the consultant and meals at the college for 1,146 1,020 92' 1,146 1,020 the judges and court managers are far less than it would have cost to send these same people to out-of-state training ses GENEIlAL EQUrrv 592 587 171 261 258 220 221 os 2,200 2,210 sions. "There is frank discussion on the values of our organiza 43,1~ SPECIAL CIV1L 17,491 11,413 1,626 os,m I tion, our mission, what we're doing, what we should be 4,568 4,508 584 n.22? 1."1,027 doing," McCaffery said. "Several divisions have proposed ini FAMll..Y 13.192 n,54a 1,455 S.lO} .5,211 tiatives based specifically on what topic was discussed at the 4,81.5 4,61S '46 4,81.5 4,67.5 seminar." The seminar also provides an opportunity for personnel DISSOLUTION 1,113 1,120 449 · - 586 194 - - from the Vicinage's three major locales, Cape May, Atlantic "9 City, and Mays Landing, to meet in other than a work environ NON-DISSOLUTION 4,19.1 4,116 105 - - ment. "Getting the judges and managers together in training 1,412 1.407 110 · - breaks down the mystique among the groups," McCaffery DELINQUENCY 6,n8 6,4J6 ". - . said. "People aren't wearing suits and ties or robes, and that 2,100 2,029 .1 - - one small change seems to facilitate the discussion." Although all judges and many key managers attend the OOMFSI'IC' ViOLENCE I,HI 1,3JO Sl - - "0 54. 5 · - seminar, McCaffery said, "We make sure that all court matters are handled during the seminar. If attorneys need to contact a OTHERFAMll..Y 415 466 422 - - 507 HI 14" - - judge or court manager, or need to have an emergent matter , , , , handled, they're able to do so." [M1SCELIJ.NEOUS At the first seminar, about 45 persons participated; the number of participants has since grown to 70. Among the top ics addressed at the seminars have been caseflow manage TOTAL ment, leadership techniques, and goal-setting. Featured pre senters have included Harvey Solomon, director of the LEGEND: ATLANTIC CAPE MAY Institute of Court Management; Maureen Solomon, a national ly-known consultant on case management; Dr. Dale Lefever, assistant chairman for management and program development, University of Michigan Med School; and Ronald J. Stupak, director and professor of public administration, University of Southern California, Washington Public Affairs Center, Washington, D.C. 41 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey2 State Library. BERGEN COUNTY Peter Ciolino Assignment Judge Dr. Conrad J. Roncati Trial Court Administrator embers of the Probation Department instituted a COMPOSITION OF FILINGS Probation Speakers Bureau M Dissolution 4.8'70 in November 1988. After receiving Delinquency 13.4-% training in the specifics of substance and alcohol abuse, probation officers Non-Dissolution 7.9% and investigators who volunteered made presentations to more than 3,000 Domestic Violence 2.9% Other Family 0.67. students in kindergarten through eighth grade by the end of the 1988 Criminal 2.8% 89 school year. Special Civil 44.6% • Probation Department and Criminal Case Management personnel cooperated on Project FORCE, a pro Civil 21.77. gram designed to increase collections of overdue penalties and fines from Equity 0.97. adult offenders. During the initial three-month period, collections •A Court Clerk manual encom cation among court security personnel totalled nearly $41,000. passing Family, Criminal, Civil, and equipment for all courtrooms with • Special Civil Part cases now are and Special Civil procedures was sound recording systems were pur being heard before a panel of two compiled. chased. attorneys and a member of the insur • Court staff continued to micro • Construction plans for new court ance profession in order to achieve film court records. rooms and administrative offices were settlement. • Two-way radios for communi- finalized. 42 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. BERGEN COUNTY 5 Year Summary Thousands 100 -,-,------,------, :: L--.-.--.-.- --.--~J===-=~-~~;;====.=i~---.==- ••-.~---.-~ 40 ..,... • " 1988 1987 1988 1989· -.Ar- Filings -*- Dispositions .....(j- Active Pending ·Please see footnote on counting method for civil cases on page 27. Programmer Brian McNulty discusses the computerized jury management system with Jury Manager Anne Barther and Anne McNulty. [CRNWAL Computerized Jury Management [CNa The Bergen Vicinage's jury management team and data processing personnel have collaborated to design a computer [GENERAL EQurrv program which aids in the efficient processing of their com , ,,, , , puterized one-step, one-day/one-trial jury system. SPECIAL CNa 37,114 37,419 3,411 14,846 14,992 A computer program is used to generate the combined I summons-questionnaire for a first mailing to approximately 1,000 citizens. Those summoned will serve for either one day IFAMav 24.613 24,123 2,111 4,6.5~ 4,6M or one trial; as a member of a grand jury one day a week for two months; or as a reserve juror who is "on call" for one DISSOLUTION 4,023 4.093 1.9.51 - - week. If a completed questionnaire is not received from a prospective juror within two weeks of the scheduled date of NON-DISSOLUTION 6,.176 6,'14 89 - - service, a followup notice automatically is generated by the computer. When received, the questionnaires are checked against a computerized printout of jurors who served during DELINQUENCY 11,134 11,201 119 - - the current year and the prior three years. "With as many as 1,000 people initially being summoned DOMESTK: VK>LENCE 2,419 2,381 38 - - for any given week, we want to make sure that those who haven't previously served do so," said Anne Barther, Bergen OTHER FAMILY nl n8 '08 - - jury manager. "But we also want to make sure that others aren't being summoned unnecessarily." 376 Additionally, the computerized system helps to reduce the IMISCELLANeOUS G 83 HZ I research needed for checking claims of service within the three-year time frame, aids in verifying prior service of those ITOTAL B 80,m c=c3 "SO I who were reintroduced to the current jury pool solely as a result of name or address change, and reduces the probability the computer reminds those prospective jurors to return it. of same name listings and duplications. "The computerization has made it easier for our jury man "We rarely run into problems with this system," Barther agement team to do their jobs more efficiently, and coupled said. "We prepare the jury calendars for the session, have with our one-day, one-trial system, makes jury service a more them reviewed by appropriate personnel and forwarded to the convenient process for those who serve." Assignment Judge, and then send them to data processing for the beginning of the summoning process. We assume every one summoned has qualified for jury service, and they're dis qualified or exempt only if a returned questionnaire shows that they're disqualified. And if the questionnaire's not returned, 43 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State3 Library. BURLINGTON COUNTY Martin L. Haines Assignment Judge James M. Parkison Trial Court Administrator he Civil Division Automated COMPOSITION OF FILINGS Case Management System T (ACMS) and a direct filing Dissolution 7.6% project were successfully implement Delinquency 13.9% ed as the first step toward a full Civil! Special Civil computer system. • In the Criminal Division, the pre indictment disposition program Non-Dissolution 11.9% divered 20 percent of the indictment workload (about 195 cases) during the year. Case management personnel Special Civil 43.7% assisted in the reduction of jail over Domestic Violence 3% Other Family 1.9% crowding through expanded screening Criminal 3% of both pre-trial and sentenced popu lations. Civil 12.9% • Family Division personnel coop Equity 1.3% erated with the Sheriff's Department to create a IV-D Warrant Unit, and total collections by $583,000 and col • Microfilm systems were installed established a Calendar Coordinator lections per case by nearly 50%. in the Special Civil Part and Family position. • Architectural plans were com Division. • Probation Supervision Services pleted for restoration and renovation • The County Bench-Bar Commit developed a pilot personal computer of the Old Court House by 1991. tee developed a six-part in-service based case tracking system. Child • Persona] computers were installed education program for members of the Support Enforcement Services, aided in eight judges' chambers, providing Bar. by Automated Child Support Enforce word processing and electronic mail • The Automated Traffic System ment System (ACSES), increased services. (ATS) was installed in four courts. 44 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. BURLINGTON COUNTY 5 Year Summary Thousands 120 ,.------,------,------_-----_ 'OOE HHH~H .~ :: =. . H.H;- ..... _. :: t~;~~;;~-.~.~.;---;.~.~.~-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.--=E-=~~~~.~~-~--~+.~.:.-.--.~.~.~.~.~.-.--.;.t o +1-----,------...------,------1 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989- ----*- FilinlS - *- Dispositions ...... Active Pending ·Please see footnote on counting method Thirty Charles Street Middle School students are active for civil cases on page 27. in the mediation program run by the Comprehensive Justice Center. School..based Mediation Program IC~~AL 317 Students at the Charles Street Middle School in Palmyra G 1 have an alternative to being summoned to the principal's office after being involved in a schoolyard argument or being ICN~ G~ I.,,~ teased by a bully. They can follow the judicial tenet of having their disputes mediated by their peers. GENERAL EQUITY Following a program first established by the National I G ;::::==~ Association of Mediation in Education. personnel from the ISPEClALCN~ Burlington County Comprehensive Justice Center-an G I I umbrella organization to evaluate. oversee. and coordinate I I complementary dispute resolution alternatives within the IFAMaY 14,3.57 14,177 2,073 5,317 .1,2.11 Vicinage- established a program in which selected students are trained to mediate disputes among their peers. DlSSOLlITJO>l 2,8.56 2.841 9(" -- Mediators and disputants who participate in the program. which is approved by the school board and parent-teacher associations before initiation and is overseen by a guidance NON-DISSOLUTION 4,449 4,463 2[2 - - counselor or Vicinage-trained volunteer mediator, "are encour aged to find acceptable problem-solving methods to resolve DELII 45 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey4 State Library. CAMDEN COUNTY A. Donald Bigley Assignment Judge Dollie E. Chambers Trial Court Administrator he Family Division substance COMPOSITION OF FILINGS abuse coordinator began an T educational outreach program Dissolution 5.5% for parents and juveniles. The pro Delinquency 12.9% gram may be expanded to include referrals from Juvenile Conference Special Civil 35.9% Miscellaneous 0.5% Committees and Police Departments throughout the county. • The Probation Alternative for Adolescent Sex Offenders (PASO) Non-Dissolution 14.7% was implemented for juveniles ages 11 to 18 to receive weekly individual and group therapy and sex education Equity 0.7% Domestic Violence 3.9% information at the Family Counseling Other Family 2.3% Criminal 5.8% Service. CIVIl 17.8% • Probation officers now have access to adult caseload files, includ ing financial obligations and reporting to county jailor county work release Program, chronically unemployed schedules, via a computer system and sentences. Offenders are fitted with an offenders and delinquent child support terminals. This process marked the electronic monitoring device which payers performed community service first step in a computer-generated records on a computer when the every weekday until they gained forms procedure for probation. releasee leaves and returns home. Any employment or began making pay • Twenty-one selected adult proba deviation from a pre-approved sched ments. Few offenders actually per tioners were participants in the In ule is recorded. formed community service, but House Arrest Program, an alternative • Under the Jobs for Support instead found employment. • 46 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. CAMDEN COUNTY Differentiated Case Management 5 Year Summary Through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance and Thousands additional funding from the Administrative Office of the 60 -,------~-----~-----_-----___, Courts, the Camden Vicinage initiated Differentiated Case 70 -I - . Management (DCM) for both Civil and Criminal cases during 60 . . __ the 1988-89 court year. 50 DCM is an approach which relies on early Court/Bar 40+····································· involvement to assign cases to particular tracks based on the 30+···················································...... , __ . level of complexity of the case. The tracks are designed to 20 + . meet the pre-trial and discovery needs of the cases rather than 10 F=====.....==~-=-=:.:;: considering the age of the cases as the decisive factor. O+------.------r-----==::=~=------1 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969· The DCM concept was first authorized by the Supreme Court as a pilot in Bergen County's Civil Division in 1986. ----...... rHine! - ... - Dispositions ~ Active Pendinc The Camden project is the first to include both Civil and Criminal cases, and includes two major applications not used ·Please see footnote on counting method in Bergen: a case scheduling plan (CSP) prepared by the attor- for civil cases on page 27. DCM relies on early Court/Bar involvement to assign cases to [e~AL particular tracks based on the rewa complexity of the case. [GENERAL EQUtrY neys in all Civil standard track cases and the use of subtracks for specific matters within the standard and expedited tracks. [SPEC~Lcwa The CSP is a pre-trial plan, submitted by participating I I I I I I attorneys, which includes specific dates for particular phases 27,131 26,166 3,279 .5,4SJ of discovery. If accepted by the court, the plan becomes a case fFAMay '.6H scheduling order, and attorneys are expected to follow that schedule. If a CSP is not submitted, an automated schedule is DISSOLUTKlN 3,818 3,644 1.040 - - generated by the Civil computer system, ACMS. Additionally, Civil cases are assigned to a track coordina NON-DISSOLUTION 10,160 9,888 "7 - - tor, who has limited authority to extend discovery and the responsibility to assist counsel with discovery problems; and DELINQUENCY 8,865 8,504 709 - - to a pre-trial judge, who hears all motions and resolves the more difficult issues of the case not under the responsibility of - - the track coordinator. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 2,700 2,6n '1 "We've come about as close to individualized case man agement or customized case management as we can get," said OTHER FAMILY 1.'88 1,4H 942 - - Civil Case Manager Linda Torkelson. "We use support staff to monitor the cases and to keep in close contact with the attor 833 MISCELLANEOUS • m~1 neys, and we try to save the judge for matters that absolutely 1 G 1 only a judge can do." Torkelson said initially attorneys "were skeptical about [TOTAL B 6,.'98 c=G ,,00,1 DCM, but the institution of subtracks particularly has gone a long way toward the acceptance of DCM by attorneys." The Civil Division Presiding Judge, Civil case manager, and track coordinators meet with a DCM Bar Advisory Committee monthly to discuss the status of the program. An evaluation of the Camden initiative is being conducted by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the AOC. 47 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey 5State Library. ESSEX COUNTY John A. Marzulli Assignment Judge Guy Willetts Trial Court Administrator he Central Judicial Processing COMPOSITION OF FILINGS Court, which processes incar T cerated Municipal Court Dissolution 2% defendants within 24 hours, was ex Delinquency 11.3% panded to East Orange and Irvington. CJP judges throughout the Vicinage Non-Dissolution 8.9% disposed of an unprecedented number of cases. This increase in total dispo Domestic Violence 2.9% sitions helped reduce a growing back log of pending litigation. Other Family 2.3% • In the Civil Division, a pilot Special Civil 55.4% effort was launched to assign preroga Criminal 6% tive writs and medical malpractice liti gation from case inception through Civil 10.5% completion to specific judges for case Equity 0.5% management purposes. • The Family Division revitalized its volunteer activities, and now has • The State Intensive Supervision the House Arrest Under Supervision nearly 500 citizens participating in Program, the Pre-Trial Release (HAUS) Program. various programs. The Division also Program, and the Essex County Local • Personnel matters, staff develop expanded its dispositions alternatives Intensive Probation Supervision Effort ment activities, and affirmative action and diversionary programs through (ECLIPSE) have been augmented and and equal employment opportunity the Prevention, Intervention, and expanded. Municipal Court judges initiatives were reorganized under an Education (PIE) Program for first now may sentence directly to Assistant Trial Court Administrator/ time juvenile offenders charged with ECLIPSE; offenders serving weekend Human Resources manager. substance abuse. sentences may be supervised through 48 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. ESSEX COUNTY 5 Year Summary ThoU98.nds 200 -rl------~------..., 150 -t.. . , -- 100 + , 50 + " ...... , ... ~ ~ .... o I I I I 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969' ...... Filings - ..- Dispositions ...... Active Pending ·Please see foolnote on counting method Cor civil civil cases on page 27. Participants in the ECLIPSE program often per 422 [CRlldmAL G~ 1 form community service. J Icw~ G~ Alternatives to Incarceration Thanks to continued funding from the Essex County Board !GENERALEQU~ of Freeholders, judges in Essex are able to offer offenders four G different alternatives to jail developed by the local probation ISPEC~L CW~ department's following the model of the State's Intensive G Supervision Program (see Probation section, page 72). I I I I The traditional ECLIPSE option parallels the State ISP in IFAM~Y 44,D6 44,307 5,9~1 4,600 4,615 that selected offenders are supervised and monitored. Under a Direct Sentencing Program. started in November 1988, DISSOLUTION 3,149 2,998 2,151 - - Municipal and Superior Court judges may designate offenders who had not served jail time for probation for one year under ISP rules. NON-DISSOLUTION 14,406 14,481 Il3 - - House Arrest and Early Release were implemented in January and June 1989 respectively. House arrest is available DELINQUENCY 18,195 18,326 861 - - mostly to offenders who otherwise would receive mandatory jail sentences for traffic violations. Participants are electroni DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 4,744 4,128 118 - - cally monitored and visited at least once every 48 hours by an officer of the Probation Department, headed by Chief OTHER FAMILY 3,662 3,774 2,648 - - Probation Officer Nicholas Fiore. Of .the 162 participants des ignated for the program since its inception, 90% completed it 347 satisfactorily. [MISCELLANEOUS G 243 IT3 1 "Jails are not built for the people who usually are eligible for House Arrest," said ECLIPSE Director Dennis Beyer. "The TOTAl. 151,735 3, 215 participants are very appreciative of the opportunity to be in I B 83 1 this program rather than jail, and are very cooperative." Under Early Release, inmates identified by jail annex per House Arrest and jail, who've made arrangements for a tele sonnel and approved by probation officers serve the last 30 phone and notified us of the installation date, and in some days of their custodial sentence under the same provisions as cases, paid for the restoration of services due to non-payment House Arrest. Since the program's beginning, 85% of the 65 of a previous bill." participants achieved compliance. For persons who adhere to the rules of the programs and "We do have some degree of selectivity in who will be in those set down by a judge, probation personnel write a letter to the programs," Beyer said. "For example, if prospective par the court stating that they have satisfactorily met the require ticipants don't have a telephone, the programs mean nothing. ments. Those who breach any provisions or commit another We've had quite a few participants, in choosing between violation are remanded to jail. 49 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey6 State Library. HUDSON COUNTY Burrell Ives Humphreys Assignment Judge John A. Clarke, Jr. Trial Court Administrator uuson County's Child COMPOSITION OF FILINGS Support Division was hon H ored at the 1988-89 Annual Dissolution 2.6% State Child Support Conference with Delinquency 11.1% an award for "Outstanding County of the Year." The award was in recogni tion of outstanding collections perfor Non-Dissolution 12.6% mance and innovative programming. • Special Civil Part staff, in cooper Special Civil 50% ation with the County Bar Associa tion, established a pilot Special Civil Domestic Vio Ie nee 3.3% Arbitration Program for cases with Other Family 1.2% claims between $1,000 and $5,000. Criminal 5% • The historic Old Hudson County Courthouse was dedicated in honor of Civil 13.3% William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Equity 0.6% Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the Hudson Vicinage Assignment Judge from 1947 to 1952. • Personnel in the Civil and Family monies. The Automated Traffic •A 23-member advisory commit Divisions prepared for implementation System (ATS) was installed in North tee was established to determine the of statewide automated data process Bergen Township and Union City. need and feasibility of a new court ing systems. The implementation of •A Training and Staff Develop house. The committee held several ACSES, the Automated Child Support ment Coordinator was hired and a meetings, and actively is working on Enforcement Computer System, facili comprehensive training plan outlining various technical, planning, and tated the tracking of child support orientation and training requirements finance issues. cases and the disbursement of support for court employees was developed. E 50 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. HUDSON COUNTY 5 Year Summary ThouS8nds 100[ 60 ~ 60 40 J 20 - 0 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969' ---*- Filings -.- Dispositions """""P- Active Pending ·Ple8se see footnote on counting method Cor civil C8s:e9 on page 27. After an extensive renovation, the Hudson County Courthouse was renamed in honor of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. IC~~AL G 343] B~= I Courthouse Dedication ICNa 2."6j During a September dedication ceremony. the Old Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City was renamed the Justice IGENERAL F4UnY G 394] William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse. Justice Brennan, who was ;:::::== born in Newark and lived in Rumson, served as the County's SPEC~LCNa I B "'693] first-ever Assignment Judge from 1947 to 1952, and sat in the I I I Old Courthouse. He was appointed a State Appellate Division Judge and served on the State Supreme Court before being !FAMay 25,687 24,6~2 4,04 .un 4,926 named an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. DISSOLUTION 2,169 2,114 1,052 - The name change was suggested by the Hudson County Bar Association and approved by the Board of Freeholders in NON-DISSOLUTION 10,.541 10,139 720 - - August 1988. The original courthouse was opened in 1910. The build DEL~QUIiNCY 9,2.S2 8,684 t,3H - - ing, which cost $3 million, is constructed of Maine granite, white and green-veined marble, oak, and mahogany. and fea tures a four-story rotunda, a stained glass ceiling, and bronze DOMESTIC VIOLIiNCE 2,708 2,632 150 - - lanterns and murals by American artists Howard Pyle and Edwin Blashfiel. OTHERFAMay 1,017 963 877 - - When construction began on the current county administra tion building, the courthouse was slated for demolition for a [~OCELLANEOUS 185 parking lot or new jail. After a local citizens' group, "Save G 237 s=:J 1. 1 Our Courthouse," campaigned to prevent the courthouse's demolition and succeeded in having "the Hudson County ITOTAL B 83.198 c=G 3.424 1 Courthouse" placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building was closed in 1966 when county and court offices were relocated to the new structure. At the dedication, Justice Brennan, who has served on the With funding from the Economic Development Authority, U.S. Supreme Court longer than all but a few members in its the Community Development Block Grant Program and the history, was the guest of honor. Principal speakers at the cere CETA Program, a $6-million renovation effort on the old mony included Chief Justice Robert N. Wi lentz, Hudson courthouse began in 1974. The building was re-opened in Vicinage Assignment Judge Burrell Ives Humphreys. County 1977, but was not fully occupied until 1986. Executive Robert C. Janiszewski, and Hudson County Bar Association President Robert F. Sloan. 51 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey7 State Library. MERCER COUNTY Samuel D. Lenox, Jr. Assignment Judge Robert J. Reed Trial Court Administrator ne of the major accomplish ments in the Mercer Vicinage COMPOSITION OF FILINGS during the '88-'89 court year O Dissolution 3.3% was the conversion to a one-step jury summoning process and the develop Delinquency 16.6% ment of an on-line jury management system. These procedures aided main Special Civil 39.9% Miscellaneous 0.7% tenance of records of juror activity and attendance, and produced auto matic letters of attendance verification at the end of a juror's service. Non-Dissolution 11.7% • The Vicinage implemented a county-wide criminal case screening Domestic Violence 4-.1% and conferencing program providing Other Family 1.6% for a local intake unit at the city court, Equity 0.7% Criminal 6.1% immediate downgrade dismissal and Civil 15.3% pre-trial intervention decisions, plea offers, negotiated filing, and simulta neous sentencing. alcohol and drug abuse programs and Collection Pilot program. Under the • Mercer's Probation Advisory services for juvenile probationers. program, all cases involving aid to Board, one of only three county ~ • Probation's Support Enforcement families with dependent children will boards within the state, formulated Division, in cooperation with the be reviewed and evaluated to ascertain plans for establishment of anon-profit County Board of Social Services, whether an increase in support pay corporation to solicit funds for new instituted the Improved Child Support ments should be recommended. 52 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. MERCER COUNTY 5 Year Summary Thousands 50 ,,:..::.:-=.::.::..::..::...------,------,------40L ' 30 .::•..••.•.•.•.• :. :-!------' ----__ ~T------: -_.: -~.~ 20 -I .. 1: t· .. ····· ..... r' ... I =:J 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989· -..- Filings - ... - Dispositions ~ Active Pending 'Please see Coolnole on counting method Consultant Betty Wilson reviews plans with the Rev. Cor civil cases on page 27. Dana Fearon, chairperson of the Mercer County Local Probation Advisory Committee. Partners With Probation ICRDOmAL ...• C=I [ m] In trying to find a way to provide additional funding for probation personnel and programs within their Vicinage, mem rewa . G [ 1,429] bers of the Mercer County Local Probation Advisory Committee decided upon a simple solution: they'll find a way 638 to raise the money themselves. IGENERAL EQUrrY G I 1 After spending more than a year interviewing probation staff, case workers, people on probation, and people in related ISPEC~L cwa '.. 22,381 I B I I work such as social services, the committee members "discov , ered just how severely limited the resources are for probation," IFAMaY 16,838 17,066 3,113 3,916 3,969 said the Rev. Dana Fearon, chairperson of the 20-member Mercer LPAC. "We heard that there aren't enough case work DISSOLUTION 1,414 1.661 726 - - ers, and probation personnel with responsibilities for supervi sion didn't have time to examine and to focus on what causes offenders to be put on probation as well. NON-DISSOLUTK>N .5,292 .5,281 611 - - "The county had no plan to spend more for probation, so the logical conclusion was to try to find new money. One of DELINQUENCY 7,489 7,519 1,09.5 - - the major obstacles is that the judiciary can't be associated with fundraising." DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1,842 1,830 82 - - After discussing several options, the committee decided to explore the possibility of establishing a non-profit organiza - - tion to assist probation officials without compromising judicial OTIfF..RFAMll..Y 141 10' 639 impartiality. The plan, which is being discussed by the com mittee and its consultant. Betty Wilson, is to form an indepen [M~ELLANOOUSG HI G3 1,133] dent board of trustees who would hear proposals from proba tion personnel and then seek to raise money to support work in [TOTAL B 44,mE3 2,96,1 probation as represented in those proposals. "For example, we'd like to be able to coordinate the efforts of groups work ing with a particular child or family so caregivers are not or county administrators, and criminal justice professionals, working in isolation from one another, and to explore the pos among others, are recommended for membership by the sibility of expanding or augmenting rehabilitation programs," Vicinage Assignment Judge and appointed by the Chief Fearon said. Justice. LPACs meet regularly to discuss issues in probation, Currently, LPACs are active in Mercer and Gloucester to conduct needs assessment, and to enlist support from other counties, and several others are in various stages of develop community groups and receive input from concerned citizens ment. Citizens, including clergy, school personnel, freeholders and local probation personnel. 53 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey8 State Library. MIDDLESEX COUNTY Hennan L. Breitkopf Assignment Judge Gregory Edwards Trial Court Administrator unicipal Court administra tion personnel commenced M a backlog reduction pro COMPOSITION OF FILINGS gram which resulted in the Middlesex Dissolution 5.9% Vicinage's having the lowest backlog of disorderly persons cases in the State. Plans are underway for a similar Miscellaneous 0.6% program in the DWI area. Non-Dissolution 4.8% • In the Family Division, noticing Special Civil 45.6% Domestic Violence 3.2% of dissolution cases where custody or Other Family 1.2% visitation was at issue was automated, and the cases were incorporated into Criminal 7% the case management structure. All citizens involved in custody or visita tion cases now are required to attend a group orientation session on· media Civil 22.3% tion services. Equity 0.8% • Civil Part personnel implemented a program using volunteer attorneys to ter and achieved a less than 6% per niles and adults through one-to-one mediate pending trial-ready cases. cent recidivism rate among partici meetings, a literacy enrichment pro Half the cases filed were settled via pants. gram, and a GED preparation pro mediation. • In Probation, an additional gram. • The Criminal Division initiated a Project CARE community board was • The Vicinage Orientation/ hybrid calendaring system which established in Perth Amboy, and Training Subcommittee planned an resulted in an increase in trial disposi Citizens' Dispute Settlement Program introductory program for all new tions. Efforts of staff in the Pre-Trial boards continued to service selected employees, and assisted in the devel Release Program maintained a stabi municipal courts. Volunteers contin opment of a labor relations program lized population at the correction cen- ued to provide service to both juve- for all supervisors. 54 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. MIDDLESEX COUNTY 5 Year Summary Thousands ~ ::6+--+-:~~_. :_::::::~.~ ~:: ______T::::: -::------t ~ ~ ...... : - i;. 40 30 ~ 20 1 10 0 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969' ----.....- Filings - ... - Dispositions -.- Active Pending Asbestos Master Richard Henke (center) discusses a case ·Ple8.se see footnote on counting method with attorneys (left to right) David K. Chazen, Steven H. for civil cases on page 27. Wodka, Charles F. Rysavy, and David M. Katzenstein. IC~AL G~ 428] Meet the Asbestos Master As few as two and as many as 35 anomeys have huddled ICN~ G~ [.'S6] with Middlesex Vicinage special asbestos master Richard Henke, Esq., to try to reach settlement in asbestos-related EQU~ IGENERAL G mJ cases. Henke, a graduate of Syracuse University Law School, has ISPECLUcwa G 27.6'S ] just finished his second year as the Vicinage's asbestos master. I I I He reviews motions and conducts case management and settle ment conferences in asbestos cases. Notification is sent to all IFAMILY 16,209 15,989 3.158 2,947 2,907 counsel for scheduling of case management conferences, at which Henke reviews all details of the litigation, including DISSOLUTION 4,016 4,Il2 1,800 - - medical reports and work site and asbestos exposure informa tion. He then drafts a status order for the case. NON-DISSOLUTION 3,2S8 3,178 60[ - - Henke estimates that 850 to 1,000 docketed cases were pending during the 1988-89 court year, but explains that 5,907 5,819 - - "Moving one docket may mean moving 20 plaintiffs. Twenty DELINQUENCY 112 docketed cases could be conferenced simultaneously for the purpose of senlement because they're all related to one work DOMESTIC' VIOLENCE 2,190 2,170 47 - - site. The key is to consolidate cases by the number of plaintiffs against common defendants and move them as a group," OTHEKFAMIi.y S'S 69' ,9S - - Henke says. "As the case progresses, some defendants move ." .... for summary judgments. As to the remaining defendants, the plaintiffs create tiers of liability and settlement agreements IM[SCELLANeOUSG 34[ G3 1.70' I will be reached. The trend is for there to be a large number of 499 defendants because plaintiffs believe it's easier to reach senle 1ToTAL G 6,.729[:G 2. 1 ment. "Some of these cases take two hours, two days, or a num ber of weeks to senle, depending how far apart the litigants are the outcome was. I've had cases in which workers' diseases on a settlement figure." were latent for 40 or 50 years before manifesting themselves." Henke says that while many people may view the final If the litigants are unable to reach a settlement after meet award as the critical factor, they may not understand the ing with Henke, Judge Thomas B. Mannion, the judge special underlying complexities of many of the cases. "It's difficult to ly assigned to handle asbestos litigation, may discuss settle compare these cases with any others. In auto accident cases, ment before beginning trial. Henke says that "very few" cases the arbitrator or judge knows exactly who's involved and what actually go to verdict. ss VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey9 State Library. MONMOUTH COUNTY Alvin Yale Milberg Assignment Judge William W. Carpenter Trial Court Administrator he Monmouth Civil Division continued its expansion of COMPOSITION OF FILINGS T cases eligible for arbitration. All personal injury cases valued at Dissolution 3.7% $20,000 or less and automobile cases Delinquency 11.3% valued at $15,000 or less now are arbitrated. Through a joint Bench/Bar Non-Dissolution 7.8% effort, a two-week trial calendar was Special Civil 46.9% introduced to improve trial date credi Domestic Violence 2.9% bility. • In the Criminal Division, intake Other Family 2% conferences were implemented. Defendants released from jail on bail Criminal 5.2% now are required to attend that confer ence, where much of the information Civil 18.4% for an initial appearance is secured. Equity 1.1% • Personnel in the Family Division helped with expansion of the for staff, judges, and members of so with service sites and intensive moni Supervised Visitation Program and the cial service and community agencies. toring of participants' performance. Child Placement Review Boards. For • The Probation Division's Com An assistant chief probation officer the first time, the Child Placement munity Service Program was exten was assigned to oversee the Child Review Boards sponsored a county sively reviewed, and a manual of poli Support Enforcement Program. In wide conference dealing with chil cies and procedures prepared based cooperation with the Sheriff's dren's issues. The Vicinage's first upon that review. Among other rec Department, concentrated roundups ever Family Division retreat was held ommendations were increased contact were held to enforce warrants. ~------S6------You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. MONMOUTH COUNTY 5 Year Summary Thousands ~ :: ecce."'.""" ....cou•••••••• _ ....ccc .c· =: 40 e ~:::J ::1:--r:· .._ 1--i u [: -- - [ 1965 1966 1967 1966 1969' ---110-- Filings - ... - Dispositions .....e- Active Pending ·PleB.ge see footnote on counting method for civil cases on page 27. ~~ As part of the Monmouth Vicinage's security plan, surveillance equipment is used to monitor the courthouse parking lot. [ C1lIMlNAL 485] Courthouse Security leNa ,.329] Following recommendations initially set forth in a report of the Supreme Court Judiciary/Sheriff Liaison Committee, rep 154 resentatives from the Monmouth Vicinage's court administra [GENEIU\L EQUrrY 1 tion, sheriff's department, and prosecutor's office established the State's first localized courthouse security plan. The coop [SPECIAL CNIL .. ".850 ] erative effort, undertaken under the direction of Assignment I I I I I Judge Alvin Yale Milberg, has shown many results, from sim IFAldILY 16,H8 16,~41 3,025 3,014 3,007 ple changes such as numbering offices and monitoring doors as well as extensive physical modifications and procedural 1,381 - - changes at the courthouse. DISSOLUTION 2.201 2.12' "We literally went to each room and corridor, the parking lot, the street, and up on the roofs of the courthouse's three NON-DISSOINTION 4,702 4,671 260 - - wings and looked at the courthouse from various perspec tives," said Assistant Trial Court Administrator Joe Barba, DELINQUENCY 6,766 6,8~9 "2 - - who conducted the examination along with Undersheriff I Richard Cottrell and Detective Captain John Valentine. "We OOMES'11C VIOLENCE 1,122 1,118 14 - - identified what particular problems or vulnerabilities were apparent at any particular location and then recommended what had to be done to correct the situation." OTHER FAMILY 1,)81 1,168 832 - - In a several hundred page document, the trio itemized what specific changes would need to be made, and prioritized those I~ELLANEOUS G 331 133 1.123/ changes by area, year of implementation, and funding. The overall security plan, which includes policies and procedures ,".~8 889 on weapons, courtroom security, bomb threats, transport of ITOTAL G 23 2, 1 prisoners, and hostage situations, was drafted by the sheriff and reviewed by judiciary personnel and the prosecutor. "We've taken an active role not only in physical modifica During 1988-89, several types of equipment were installed tions, but in sensitizing the courthouse employees to what is in the courthouse. Included in the year's installations are an expected of them under the plan in certain situations through exterior intercom, which is used by arriving corrections offi simulated fire drills and bomb evacuations, training, and brief cers to phone security personnel to unlock specific doors; a ings from sheriff's personnel," Barba said. "With the consis closed circuit television camera, for surveying a courtroom tent efforts of the Assignment Judge, Sheriff's Department, used primarily for "high-risk" trials; duress alarms, installed in and court personnel, great progress has been made in only a judges' chambers and key administrative staff offices; a few years." portable walk-through magnetometer; and bullet-resistant materials in and behind judges' benches. 57 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey10 State Library. MORRIS, SUSSEX COUNTIES Reginald Stanton Assignment Judge Michael A. Arnold Trial Court Administrator icinage personnel began the 1988-89 court year with a COMPOSITION OF FILINGS V kickoff meeting for a new Dissolulion 6.7% employee involvement program tai lored to improving lines of communi Delinquency 6.4:'1 cation among judiciary personnel, professional staff, and citizens, and to Non-Dissolution 5.4% enhancing the employees' understand ing of their roles within the judicial Special Civil 46.7:'1 Domestic Violence 5.3% process. • As a followup to the program, a Other Family 2:'1 series of meetings was held within each division of the court with presid Criminal 5.7% ing judges, court administrators, and case managers serving as discussion Civil 15.5:'1 leaders. Vicinage-wide policies and Equity 1.2% general management procedures, cur rent issues, employee concerns, and team building were among the topics was completed for the new Sussex renovations was an expanded juror addressed. County Courthouse. As an interim holding area. • The Morris and Sussex County measure, the old Sussex Admini • Four new courtrooms and sub expansion projects continued to stration Building underwent renova stantial new support staff facilities advance towards completion. Bids tions and was converted into a were readied for occupancy in Morris were accepted and the design phase Criminal Court Complex. Among the County. 58 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. MORRIS, SUSSEX COUNTIES 5 Year Summary ThoU!!lsnds 50 ~------,------'----~ 40 ~.- 30 .r.:.:.------_. -.t-----" ---_. ---t------~ 20 10 i----· --_., • .-===-r o I I 1985 1986 19 87 1988 1989' ----6- Filings - ..... - Di9po9ilions ---e- Active Pending Bail reduction hearings can now be heard in Morris County by use of a television hookup between criminal ·Pleage gee footnote on counting method courtrooms and the jail. for civil CB.ges on page 27. Bail Reductions via TV For Morris/Sussex Vicinage Judiciary and Corrections per sonnel trying to find a way to reduce the time spent on bail [CRIMINAL reduction hearings, the solution was right next door: since the jail and courthouse are adjacent to one another, hard wire a television in the jail and another in a courtroom, and string the CIViL wire across the courtyard. "It was a logical and simple alternative, and we were very [GENERAL EQUITY ~ ..... I ~ ..... I ...... , fortunate," said Trial Court Administrator Michael Arnold. "In I I I other jurisdictions, the jail and the courthouse are too far apart SPECIAL elVIT. 11,t.SS 11,242 1.609 '''.'10 '.,484 to do the same type of setup at a comparable cost." The total 4,S~1 4,614 '12 22,655 23,010 cost for the hookup and its components was $10,000. "We tried to come up with a mechanism to reduce the fre fAMILY 8.SM.l I.!NS 1,491 2,_ 2.195 3,4H 3,282 67' 2,881 2,13.5 quency of the transporting of prisoners from the jail to the courthouse because of security and budgetary reasons," DlSSOLunON 2,S.s:s 2,189 102 .. - Arnold said. "We wanted to prevent having prisoners being 646 646 284 - - transported through crowded hallways, and we had fewer per NON-DISSOLIJTION' 1....U 1,_ 13 .. - sonnel from the sheriff's office to transport them." 966 933 79 - - During the proceedings, the defendant is seated in the jail's DELINQUENCY 2,121 2,122 272 - - chapel while the attorneys and the judge are in one of two 1,009 887 161 - - courtrooms equipped for the process. Via a split screen, the parties all can see one another. A direct line telephone is avail DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1,860 1,871 II .. - 496 'II 10 - .. able in both the courtrooms and the chapel for confidential conversations between the defendant and his or her attorney. If OTlIER fAWiLY 4'" 323 - - 340'" 30' 141 - - attorneys wish to, they may go through security clearance at , ,,, , , the jail and be with their client during the proceedings. [MISCELlANEOUS Approximately 10 to 20 defendants per day are processed via the video bail reduction program, and emergent bail mat ters also are processed every day using the hookup. "The tele TOTAL vision setup saves time in that the defendant doesn't have to be prepped at the jail and sheriff's personnel don't have to act LEGEND: MORRJS SUSSEX as escorts," Arnold said. S9 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey11 State Library. PASSAIC COUNTY Nicholas G. Mandak Assignment Judge Richard M. Centanni Trial Court Administrator ersonnel in the Criminal COMPOSITION OF FILINGS Division established uniform P procedures, including standard Dissolution 3.1% ized forms, for processing of high Delinquency 14.4% impact bail matters, and formulated a pre-printed and formatted, single Miscellaneous 0.3% source document to be used for pre Specia) Civil 431% sentence investigation (PSI) reports Non-Dissolution 13.1% and for updating the particular case as it proceeds through the court system. • In Jury Management, the master jury file was augmented to include a Domestic Violence 4% prospective juror's social security Other Family 0.7% Criminal 4.1% number and date of birth, thus limiting Equity 0.6% duplication of records. Civil 16.6% • An orientation program aimed at introducing all new judicial employ ees to the court system was imple •A building adjoining the court system. mented. The program will be present house was purchased for housing •A courtesy phone was installed in ed to all new employees during the grand jury operations and the child the main lobby of the new courthouse. first three months of their tenure. placement and family crisis interven A directory provides information for •A computer system was installed tion offices. and directions to each department. A for production of grand jury input • An informational manual was floor plan of the three-building court sheets for true bills and a weekly war produced for judges and other per complex is adjacent to the courtesy rant list, along with a jail status report. sonnel involved in the emergent duty phone. 60 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. PASSAIC COUNTY 5 Year Summary Thousands rol ~ 60 50 ""f'---"~------__~ 40 30 20] . __I 1: '--r !-~ 1965 1966 1987 1988 1989· ...... ,a,...- Filings - ... - Dispositions ~ Active Pendinl ·Plesse see foolonate on counting method Senior Probation Officer Barbara Danko and Assistant for civil cases on page 27. Trial Court Administrator Joseph Quartucci interview Prosecutors Ronald S. Fava and Robert Warmington while Senior Probation Officer Michael Taylor films an edition of "The Courts and You." [C~AL m] Capturing the Courts on Cable A cooperative effort between Probation Department and [crvo. [.m] Judiciary personnel has resulted in an award-winning cable TV program for the Passaic Vicinage. [GENERAL EQUrrv 288] "The Courts and You," co-hosted by Assistant Trial Court Administrator Joseph Quartucci and Senior Probation Officer [SPECIAL crvn. 20.639] Barbara Danko, was a 1989 finalist award-winner in the I I I I I Hometown U.S.A. Video Festival sponsored by the National Federation of Local Cable Programming. The half-hour show IFAMn.-v 22.616 22,151 3,301 4,812 4.841 is coordinated solely by probation and judiciary volunteers and Senior Probation Officer and Probation AudioNisual Director DISSOLUTION' 1,952 2,274 996 - - Michael Taylor. The volunteers do everything from splicing and editing tape to filming in the studio and on location to run NON-DISSOLUTION 8,423 8,011 1,221 - - ning the sound board. Carried by the UA/Columbia cable system and taped in its DELINQUENCY . 9.2~1 9.476 '93 - - studio in Teaneck the third Friday of every month, the pro gram runs for an entire month and can be viewed as many as four times per week in any given town. Subjects covered cor OOMESTIC VIOLENCE 2,547 2,HO 41 - - respond to all aspects of the judicial process and related ser vices and agencies. OTHER FAMILY 443 440 430 - - The concept for the program was developed by Assignment ' .. Judge Nicholas G. Mandak and Trial Court Administrator IM[SCELLANEOUS [78 890 Richard M. Centanni. "It's basically an informational show," G L:G I Quartucci said. "We've covered landlord tenant matters, had 93 942 the family case manager explain the spectrum of juvenile, dis IroTAL B 6[.[ 23 2. 1 solution, and non-dissolution situations, and reviewed with the public defender the services provided by his office. On a show use a question and answer circumstance, but rather a conversa about victim assistance, we interviewed the father of a girl tional format. The person answering the questions really who was murdered and the State's victims' advocate. We doesn't have a problem telling us, for example, how many reported on a county camp for children from the city, using people are in the department. We have to know enough to keep video we shot on-location, and we devoted one program to a the conversation moving." DYFS film on how staff go into homes to check on children." The show's main viewing area is Passaic County, but it is Quartucci says that those approached to appear on the available in selected towns in surrounding counties as well. show "are more than glad to do it." Of his and Danko's roles The program cannot be seen in Paterson, but negotiations are as moderators, he says "You just have to be comfortable with continuing with that city's cable TV system to carry the pro the person who's answering the questions. We usually don't gram. 61 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey12 State Library. - UNION COUNTY Edward W. Beglin, k Assignment Judge John N. Miri, Esq. Trial Court Administrator riminal Division personnel implemented simultaneous C sentencing in approximately COMPOSITION OF FILINGS 300 cases during the ' 88-'89 court Dissolution 4-.5% year. The program, along with pre Delinquency 9.9% existing initiatives such as first ap pearance and pre-disposition courts, enabled the division staff to maintain Non-Dissolution 8.9% control over a caseload which Special Civil 49.5% increased 50% over the prior year. • In the Civil Division, the Domestic Violence 3.3% Automobile Arbitration and Personal Other Family 1.5% Iniury Arbitration programs were Criminal 6.2% expanded. The Direct Filing and Automated Case Management (ACMS) computer systems were inte Civil 15.3% Equity 0.6% grated into the Division's operations. The County Clerk's facility was mod ernized and renovated to accommo ment operations were converted to formed. The group meets every two date those systems, the Automated Child Support months to discuss procedures and con • The Probation Department Staff, Enforcement (ACSES) computer cerns. in response to jail overcrowding, system. With the assistance of County • Telephone answering equipment developed a house arrest program Youth Services staff, the Juvenile was installed in all Court Violation through which probationers are moni Supervision Unit enhanced and Bureaus to aid in the public's accessi tored via a computerized wristlet and expanded its community resource bility to information regarding court by unannounced visits by their proba referral network. hours. tion officers, Child Support Enforce- •A Court Clerks Association was 62 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. UNION COUNTY 5 Year Summary Thousands. 70 ,,------,------,------,------, 60 50 l~~~c __ '-' -, ---.------,------~- ..."','" --' -',~ 40 :~r --l-----:-nr~ 1985 1986 1967 1988 1989' -4- Filing9 - ... - Dispositions """"'9- Active Pending ·Please see foolnote on counting method tor civil cases on page 27. Union County Consortium Clinician/Liaison Sally Wolberg interviews a client. 469 ] [CRNmAL G~ 329 Counseling Consortium Icwa G ,. 1 Clients referred by the court for counseling now can G~[ receive help through a program established by the Judiciary IGENERALEQUrrf 367 and several private agencies in Union County. Personnel from 1 both groups are available to explain directives and offer advice 34.342 ] to those juveniles and adults nominated by the court to receive ISPECMLcwa G 1,,, counseling as part of a sentence or probation. Most of the cases involve domestic violence and juveniles charged with IFAMaY 17.777 11,.582 2,601 3.06S 3,031 drug-related offenses. Nine agencies have contracted with the county to accept DISSOLUTION 2.84.5 2,892 790 - - court referrals for individual and group counseling, in-patient and out-patient substance and alcohol abuse treatment, and NON-DISSOLUTION .5,621 .5,H2 266 - - family counseling. In addition, several of the agencies provide psychological as well psychiatric evaluations. 6,290 6.208 - - "Those ordered to receive counseling or treatment come DELINQUENCY 869 directly from the court for an interview," said County Consortium Clinician/Liaison Sally Wolberg, who estimates DOMESTIC VK>LENCE 2,094 2,01.5 '9 - - she meets with lO to 20 people per week. "The interview is to determine if they are willing to attend counseling; to what OTHERFAMll..Y 927 815 6[7 - - extent they are abusing substances; the possibility that the client may be a threat to himself/herself or others; and to gain 693 general background information." Of those referred, some IMISCELLANEOUS G 208 CD 1 already have been incarcerated or placed in a detention facili 950 ty, while others are first offenders. ITOTAL G '9.482 c=G 2. 1 Special circumstances are considered before the final refer ral is made. For example, victims of domestic violence are not eligible for couple's counseling under the restrictions of a full tions. "Generally someone who has the means to pay won't be restraining order. In cases where full restraints are not referred to a consortium program. but to a private counselor or ordered, the clients have the option of receiving couple's coun agency," Wolberg said. Those who wish to continue counsel seling, if determined appropriate by the court. ing beyond the sessions paid for by the court and can't afford The court subsidizes six counseling sessions per person for to do so may reimburse the agency on a sliding fee scale or those involved in domestic violence disputes, eight sessions through insurance. for family counseling, one session for psychological or psychi Agency personnel may recommend continued counseling atric evaluations, and one to two sessions for custody evalua- beyond the court-required sessions in certain circumstances. 63 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State13 Library. - SOMERSET, HUNTERDON, WARREN COUNTIES Wilfred P. Diana Assignment Judge Eugene L. Farkas Trial Court Administrator n Warren County, Criminal Case Management staff began to use COMPOSITION OF FILINGS I the National Crime Information Center Automated Computer System to access vital background informa tion on defendants for court purposes, Miscellaneous 1.2% including bail, pre-sentencing, and Special Civil 45.1 % post-trial. Staff also implemented a Non-Dissolution 8.6% County Jail Information System, which provides offender classification information, data from all state pris Damestic Violence 3.8% ons, and jail listings, commitment and Other Family 1.5% discharge listings, and bail amount Criminal 6% reports. •A committee of judicial and Equity 1.3% Civil 14.2% county administrators was established to review current court facilities, to recommend uses for current space, court facilities. Upon recommendation • Somerset County Family Case and to evaluate the need for relocation from the committee, the County Management personnel developed and of offices and renovations. As a first Freeholders hired a professional judi established a parenting skills work step, all non-judicial agency offices cial consultant to study existing facili shop for separated and divorced cou were moved outside the courthouse, ties and project staffing needs. The ples who are involved in frequent liti allowing for relocation of judicial consultant will develop a report on gation, continuing to have unresolved staff offices. future growth possibilities (site selec issues of custody/visitation, or ordered • In Hunterdon County, a commit tion, numbers of courtrooms, etc.) for by the Court to participate. tee also was established to evaluate consideration by the Freeholders...... 64 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. SOMERSET, HUNTERDON, WARREN COUNTIES 5 Year Summary Thousands ::1 ~ :: F--~::------:- -:- ---~ ----.~.-----.-~~.- 15 + ······································c··············· . l:j- -_. • ' L~ o I I I 1985 1988 1987 1988 1989· -A.- Filings - .. - Di9po~ition9 ~ Active Pending ·Plesse see footnote on counting method Dorcas McDonald, director of the Resource Center for civil cases on page 27. for Divorcing Parents, and Shirley M. Gurisic, Family Court mediation coordinator, oversee ACTIVE Fll.lNOS TERMlNATlONS Somerset County's parenting skills workshops. FD..lNOS TE~INATIONS PENDlNO PER JUDGE PEJit.l1JDGE 867 752 ll~ 482 407 ClllMlNAL 44~ 406 183 636 ~80 620 4JI 424 689 j()1 2.941 2,211 2,407 1,279 961 CIVIL 940 416 1,159 1,343 ~94 Parenting Workshops 69J JJI 725 I,J86 1,102 "How to handle those chaotic, painful emotions which 214 = 72 713 no come up just when we think we're out of the woods or are GENERAL EQ UrrY 125 132 41 - - exhausted from the last round." That's just one of the topics 82 7J 57 - - covered at parenting skills workshops for divorced or separat 8,9~3 8,952 868 17,906 17,904 SPECIAL eIVD. 2,881 2.664 HI 14,405 13,320 ed parents offered as part of the Somerset County Family 2,702 2.72j 277 H,jIO H,62j Court Mediation Program. 5,176 ~,243 610 ".SIS 4.~ The two-and-a-half hour workshops, which are held once a FAMILY 2,343 2,324 403 3,347 3,320 2.872 2,840 451 4,103 4,057 week for four consecutive weeks, were offered twice in the 2.IU 2,180 38~ - - spring and twice in the fall during the 1988-89 court year and PISSOLVTlON 689 671 248 - - funded through a grant from the Administrative Office of the 487 477 180 - - - - Courts. Separated or divorced parents, married or unmarried, 674 684 30 NON-PISSOLUTlON 901 897 25 - - who are continuing to have unresolved issues of custody and 1,19.1 1,187 52 -- visitation are referred for the program by Family Court per 1.'52 1.'94- 71 - - PELlNQUENCY 4~6 461 ~9 - - sonnel. Participation is court-ordered or voluntary, and limited 759 7/J 77 - - to approximately 10 people per group. Spouses and/or ex 10~ 106 8 spouses are not in the same group, although both parties are DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 209 202 ~ - - 517 - - encouraged to participate. 521 8 260 279 116 "Some parents are caught in a revolving door syndrome. OTHER FAMILY 88 93 66 - - They constantly keep re-litigating custody and visitation mat /J2 146 105 - - ters and use the courts as a way to let out those little jibs and 120 112 44 1,200 1,120 MISCELLANEOUS 144 136 37 - - jabs to get back at each other and to help alleviate their stress," /J4 112 49 I,J40 1,120 said Shirley M. Gurisic, Family Court mediation coordinator. 11.271 17,475 4.116 2,947 2,819 "The parents who participate in this program have been TOTAL 6,878 6,078 2,394 2,990 2,643 through the system and have found that it's just not giving 7,IOJ 6,n4 1,941 2,960 2,814 them what they need." [LEGEND, SOMERSET HUNTERDON WARREN Dorcas McDonald, director of the Resource Center for Divorcing Parents in Princeton, helps the participants learn find out they're not the only ones who are having problems," communications skills and techniques for negotiation and con Gurisic said. "Getting involved in the program takes a lot of flict resolution, and examine their relationships and emotions strength on the parents' part. It's an exercise in self-examina through role-playing and other exercises. tion, and a way for them to determine what they're doing "Participants get a chance to meet with other parents and to wrong in the relationship." 65 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. . VICINAGE 14 - OCEAN COUNTY Eugene D. Serpentelli Assignment Judge Frank W. Kirkleski, Jr. Trial Court Administrator he Probation Department's Jobs for Support Program won T a National Association of COMPOSITION OF FILINGS Counties Award. Participants in the Dissolution 4% program paid nearly $75,000 in previ Delinquency 10.1% ously uncollectible child support dur ing the year. Staff in the IV-D Support Unit implemented the State's first Non-Dissolution 8.4% asset seizure program, which netted nearly $150,000 in child support. • Two civil arbitration programs Special Civil 50.5% Domestic Violence 3.8% were instituted. In Small Claims and Other Family 1% Landlord Tenant cases, court volun Criminal 3.9% teers now mediate the majority of the cases to settlement. Personal injury claims now are mediated by staff Civil 16% attorneys who also participate in the Equity 1.7% automobile arbitration program. • Informal bail reviews and formal • Pilot Municipal Court mediation • With funding from the Depart bail hearings continued within the programs using Family Division vol ment of Human Services, Family Criminal Division. A case supervisor unteers to settle neighborhood dis Division staff were assigned to over conducts daily reviews of inmates to putes were started in three communi see various initiatives, such as a men's identify those eligible for bail reduc ties. Volunteers also were used to anger management group, and parent tions or increases, and weekly formal explain court procedures to litigants in ing awareness, family counseling, and bail hearings are conducted with pros domestic violence, custody, and visita child/parent visitation programs. ecutors and defense attorneys. tion cases, as well as to serve jurors. . -... 66 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. 5 Year Summary Thousand!l 50 ,,------,------, 40 30 1""" ... -A••••.•.•.•..••.•.•• __ • ~_.._" --:.:-..'-----r:- 20 10 i" .. .- ...--... ,~ o I , 1985 1988 1987 1988 1989'I ----Ao- Filings - ... - DispositionS! ~ Active Pending 'Please see footnote on counting method for civil cases on page 27. Ocean County Residential Drug Program Director Roy Van Houten and Senior Probation Officer Charles Concodora meet with program partici pants. [CRWmAL ,.. 1 [CN~ 1,208] Residential Drug Program Situated in the business district of Toms River is the Ocean County Family Court Substance Abuse Program facility---oth [GENERAL EQUITY 94 ' 1 erwise known as Mott Place-a county-owned property that serves as the home base for six juveniles participating in the ISPECIAL CNlL 28.040 I program. , ,,,, Six young men are supervised around the clock in the pro 10.799 10,403 2, L34 '.272 3,In gram's in-patient component, and 17 young men and women !FAMlLY are overseen through the out-patient portion. The participants, usually between the ages of 13 and 17, range from those expe DISSOLUTION I,H3 1,641 114 - - riencing family problems to runaways and truants to those who've committed crimes. They are referred to the program NON-DISSOLUTION 3,329 3,116 '67 - - through family crisis and juvenile services, DYFS, and the school systems, or as part of their probation or sentence. The DELINQUENCY 4,006 3,182 607 - - average stay is six to nine months. "Prior to this program [which began in August 1988], chil - - dren were being sent out of the community and even out-of OOMES'TK:: VIOLENCE 1,505 1,41Q 27 state for treatment, so the chance for follow-up care was mini mal," said Program Director Roy Van Houten. "It became a OTHER FAMll.Y 386 '94 339 - - difficult situation not only for the child, but for the family as well. In some cases, the parents have difficulties similar to the MISCELLANEOUS 211 70' child's." I G G3 I Once the extent of a participant's chemical or substance 109 abuse problem is determined. he or she is assigned to specific ITOTAL G 37.613 c=G ,. 1 individual and group therapy sessions along with meetings of support groups such as Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous. The out-patient program is conducted at a local outreach Parents are required to attend similar sessions. In-patients con center. Participants, who go to school or work, must attend one tinue their education at the facility, participate in recreational group and one individual counseling session per week and activities at local sites and family activities, and perform com meetings of selected support groups, and are chemically moni munity service. Based on their progress, they may be granted tored for substance abuse at least weekly. Their parents are weekend "furloughs" at their homes. encouraged to attend family support group sessions. When in-patients have made significant strides within their Fifteen full- and part-time staff, including certified coun particular program, they are released to after-care, during selors, teachers, and probation officers, operate the program. which they are contacted two to three times per week for approximately six months. They must return to school or have ajob. 67 VICINAGEYou're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State15 Library. - GLOUCESTER, CUMBERLAND, SALEM COUNTIES Samuel G. DeSimone Assignment Judge Stephen E. Fingerman Trial Court Administrator ith funding from the State Law Enforcement Planning W Agency, Family Court staff teamed up with the Boy Scouts of COMPOSITION OF FILINGS Special Civil 33.5% America to institute a program for Equity 0.7% economically disadvantaged juveniles. Program monies are used for payment of dues, for clothing, camping equip ment, and other incidental items Criminal 6.4% required to be a Boy Scout. • In Gloucester County, personnel Dissolution 4.3% in the Family Court Domestic Other Family 1.7% Domestic Violence 3% Violence Unit followed up on all reported cases and worked with Social Service agencies staff throughout the Delinquency 17% county to assist victims of domestic Non-Dissolution 23.7% Miscellaneous 0.3% violence with solving the problems involved in family disputes. •A Neighborhood Dispute Pro CARE, a rehabilitation program for •A Post-Trial Juror Trauma Pro gram was established in the Municipal juvenile probationers or court-referred gram was initiated to assist jurors who Courts. Volunteers hear disputes youth. Plans were completed for a are adversely affected by their service. among neighbors and provide addi Home Detention/House Arrest Jurors participating in the project are tional support and services to citizens Program in all three counties, and shown a film on juror trauma and dis in a particular geographic area. guidelines were established for the cuss their experience with court per • Probation Department volunteers monitoring of offenders released from sonnel. in four municipalities initiated Project jail as a result of those programs. . .. 68 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. GLOUCESTER, CUMBERLAND, SALEM COUNTIES 5 Year Summary Thousands ~ . • 50 -L c " ~-- ..- u -- • u-_- ~-' -- 40 30 20 10 { • • ~-----==- I o I I I 1985 1988 1987 1988 1989' -+- Filings - .... - Dispositions --..e- Active Pending Assignment Judge Samuel G. DeSimone oversees the Gloucester County summary jury trial program. ·PleBse see footnote on counting Inelhod for civil cases on page 27. Summary Jury Trials In Gloucester County, attorneys and litigants in complex ACTIVE FILINGS TEIlMlNATlONS FlLINOS TEKMINATIONS PENDING PER-JUDJE PER-JUIXJE Civil cases have an additional option to settlement alternatives ~40 or a trial. They can have their dispute heard via a summary 1,061 1,05' "7 ..2 ICRIMINAL 1,674 1,691 S07 1,046 1,0.51 jury trial, a process which provides an advisory verdict from a J.(X)J 8lJ H6 1,OOJ glJ six-member jury. ',023 2,141 ~.~~~ 1,16' In "We're looking for cases that are difficult to settle, or that ICN~ I 1,9C8 1,8n 2,052 1,771 1,684 involve difficult issues," said Assignment Judge Samuel G. JH J02 '.J /,7/0 1,613 DeSimone, who personally oversees the program. "We're 190 17~ 6~ 415 .,1 14~ 72~ looking for lengthy cases, and cases that involve real adversar IGENERAL EQUITY 1S4 .1 770 H '6 - - ial-type situations." " 9,407 9,079 976 23.'18 22,_ In the program's first year, 46 cases were selected for sum CN~ 7,626 1,091 38,130 37,980 ISPECIAL 7,'96 mary trials. Thirty-eight settled before trial, and seven of the 2,41.5 l,Xla 228 24.J.50 2,$,080 remaining eight settled based on the summary jury's recom 9,:104 9,'bJ9 1,374 4,4JO 4.3" 12,471 11,296 mendations. IFAMaY 14,9tiS Il,.'}" 4,4'6 Civil case management personnel screen cases, and for 4.601 4,.5JO 608 7,678 7,.183 1,4SO 1.463 431 - ward those to Judge DeSimone for a final decision on possible DISSOLUTION 616 ~40 479 - - use of a summary jury trial. The judge meets with the attor 429 j59 175 - - neys to determine whether or not they or their clients will con 5,521 ~.~~~ 282 sent to a summary trial. NON-DISSOLUTION 8,072 7,810 1,237 - , 2.20j 124 - "The program is strictly voluntary. If both parties are 2,200 - 3.~7 ',237 ~9~ - - agreeable at the pre-hearing conference, we go ahead. If they DELINQUENCY 5,034 3,973 2,268 - - want the summary trial, they get it," Judge DeSimone said. 1,462 1,411 167 - - A pre-trial conference between counsel and the judge is ~96 604 It - - held about one week before the summary trial to discuss rules, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 170 In 26 - - 297 7 - - procedures, and jury charges. The final, abbreviated charge is 296 ~JO ~7O 257 - based on submissions by counsel. OTHERFA)l~Y 373 157 446 - - Six jurors are selected from the general jury panel in an 220 220 - - __ I abbreviated process allowing for only two challenges per , , - , '" , h_ I , attorney and for no alternate jurors. The selected jurors are advised of the summary nature of the proceeding, but are not told that their verdict is only advisory until after the verdict is rendered. Three to four hours is allotted for each trial, with counsels' being required to limit their best presentation of the case to an [LEGEND: GLOUCESTER CUMBERLAND SALEM hour or hour-and-a-half. Evidence admissable at trial may be presented, along with supporting documents. After the jury renders its verdict, the judge asks individual Judge DeSimone hopes to expand the program to include jurors their reasons for the decision. Counsel may supplement all the Vicinage's civil judges, and to be able to offer the sum the judge's questions. mary jury trial option to attorneys "on the spot," he said. "If "Jurors have been very receptive to the concept," Judge an attorney's expert witness can't make the scheduled triaL DeSimone said. "The only criticism I've heard is that because why not offer an alternative right there? We don't lose trial they didn't see witness, the jurors couldn't pass upon the cred time, we keep the judges busy. we use the jurors, and we very ibility of the witness." possibly settle a complex case." 69 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. ....- I I ...... 70 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. You're viewingPROBATION an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. robation supervISion case loads continued their growth in both the adult and juvenile areas. The total caseload grew by more than 9% during the AVERAGE SUPERVISION CASELOAD 1988-89 court year, as compared to Number 3.6% the year before. 200 The outcome of supervision 175 163 162 162 showed a slight increase in the percentage of successful completions 150 for juveniles, but a slight decrease in 125 successful terminations for adults. The adult probation caseload 100 averaged 162 persons per probation 75 officer, holding steady from last year. 50 The average adult probation caseload is two to three times higher than any 25 19B5 19B6 acceptable standard ever recommend 19B7 19BB 19B9 ed by national commissions or study groups, and nearly double the recently I m!llI Adult 0 Juvenile I accepted levels for adult caseloads. Juvenile caseloads grew slightly to 85 per probation officer, and are at least double the acceptable levels as well. These larger caseloads continue to challenge the ability of the probation SUPERVISION PROFILE* staff to supervise adequately the Adults clients on probation. 70,000 59,205 60,000 Adult Supervision 50,000 Personnel from Adult Supervision 40,000 Services and other departments of the 30,000 AOC secured a State Justice Institute grant to test new methods for enforc 20,000 ing court-ordered financial obliga 10,000 tions. They worked with staff in a 1988 1989 several counties to develop a model for supervision case management, and !I3±!Il Persons Supervised o Successful Outcome began a major initiative with all New ~ Unsuccessful Outcome Jersey colleges and universities to I recruit bilingual staff and to compile a ·Including Municipal and Superior Courts Hispanic social services directory. Community Service During the 1988-89 court year, Community service has continued Intensive Supervision more than 1.4 million hours of service the trend of growth which character valued at about $5 million were Program ized the program since its inception in performed by participants in the The Intensive Supervision Program 1982. The program has grown ten-fold community service program, a 6% (ISP), an intermediate form of since its start, with more than 25,500 increase over the previous year. punishment for adult offenders participants currently enrolled. released from prison, continues to 72 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. During 1989, participants contin ued to achieve a high rate of program compliance. Only 2.7% of the persons SUPERVISION PROFILE* admitted to ISP were arrested and convicted of an indictable offense, Juveniles The majority of those returned to prison violated programmatic 13,000 11,112 11,175 12,000 conditions. 11,000 ISP participants generated more 10,000 9,000 than $5.5 million in earnings during 6,000 7,000 the 1988-89 court year. 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 1,069 2,000 1,000 Juvenile Services o The foremost assignment of the 1966 1969 juvenile services division was staffing responsibilities for the 1989 Judicial Persons Supervised o Successful Outcome Conference, "Juveniles, Justice, and Unsuccessful Outcome r: 1 the Courts." Project CARE (Community ·Including Municipal and Superior Courts Assistance in Rehabilitation Efforts) involves community teams of 7 to 10 persons, all volunteers, who work as partners with members of County Probation Departments to develop case plans and contracts with selected ISP PARTICIPANT STATUS probationers. The volunteers advise and counsel the juveniles, and in some Graduates 645 cases, their family members, in such 38.0% areas as educational and employment ~ opportunities, job skills, and possible rehabilitation; work with the juveniles Isp Enforcement 18 1.1% on specific parts of their particular Olher 16 0.9% probation program and to keep them in touch with the community; and advocate the creation of additional Law Enforcement 131 7.7% services for juveniles under super vision. About 130 volunteers now Active 500 29.5% participate in this judicial/community partnership. Program Violators 386 Increased state funding during 22.8% 1988-89 allowed for the continuation of Project CARE initiatives in Cam den, Essex, Middlesex, and Gloucester Counties, and the establishment of programs in Atlantic, Ocean, and prove its effectiveness and serves as a daily diary; pay all financial Mercer Counties. national model for similar programs. obligations; adhere to a monitored ISP requires frequent contacts curfew; complete community service; between officer and participant. participate in treatment programs; and Child Support Participants must maintain full-time submit to frequent testing for use of New Jersey's Child Support employment, a weekly budget, and drugs and alcohol. initiative received national recognition 73 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. for its effectiveness, efficiency, and Personnel in County Prohation The Child Support Hearing Otlicer total collections. The U.S. House of Departments are responsihle for the program continued to provide addi Representatives Ways and Means supervision and enforcement of court tional resources for estahlishment, Committee reviewed child support ordered support payments. During the modi fication, and enforcement of child programs throughout the country, and 19RR-89 court year, the total caseload support cases. A Chief Hearing Officer awarded only four states "A's" for was 262,397. Public assistance cases and four new Hearing Officer posi their efforts. New Jersey was awarded (AFDC) totalled 117,590, and non tions were added to the program, the top grade, along with Delaware, public assistance cases (NPA) totalled bringing to 16 the number of individ Michigan, and South Dakota, 144,807, uals providing service to the 21 counties. Along with the increase in the num ber of cases, probation had an increase of 7.5% in the amount collected for child support For the second straight CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTIONS year more than a quarter of a billion Millions dollars, $283,919,937 was collected. 400 For AFDC cases, $60,643,524 was collected, and for non-AFDC cases, $223,276,413. Collections for AFDC 300 cases are used to reimburse State and Federal contributions for AFDC 200 programs while non-AFDC collections are provided directly to families for 100 support. Through the use of income with holding, a total of $97,613,510 was o collected during 1988-89. Tax offset 19BB 19B9 programs have generated almost $20 million from both Federal and State ~ AFDC 0 Non-ArDC _ TOTAL I tax returns of delinquent child support payers. Still, the vast majority of collections, 52%, is the result of enforcement efforts by Probation Department staff. COLLECTIONS Millions Collections by Probation 7.0 - -- 6.0 6.2 Departments 6.0 In excess of $17.75 million in 5.0 fines, restitution, Violent Crimes 4.0 Compensation Board assessments, 3.0 Forensic Laboratory Fees, Drug En forcement and Demand Reduction 2.0 fees, and other penalties were collect 1.0 0.4 0.4 ed by County Probation Departments 0.0 during the 1988-89 court year. Proba 19B6 19B9 tion Departments are the main source for collection of VCCB assessments, Fines ~ Restitution o VCCEs which are used for restitution of vic DEDRes ~ FLF o Other I: tims, and for DEDR fees, which will be used to support drug education and prevention programs. 74 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. <' , " " u~ ···i!~:"~'!i\:K;>;'·.... ;'~,,/i;.()a 3Il1 ..... 'i';f~;,\!! .!i~~3.0JiItI. () ...... -. IT1¥DSlNIWQV ADMINISTRATIVEYou're viewing an archiveOFFICE copy from the NewOF Jersey StateTHE Library. COURTS Administrative Office of the Courts: (left to right, seated) Theodore J. Fetter, Deputy Director; Robert D. Lipscher, Administrative Director of the Courts; Jane Castner, Assistant Director, Civil Practice; (standing) Harvey M. Goldstein, Assistant Director, Probation Services; James R. Rebo, Assistant Director, Information Systems Division; David P. Anderson, Assistant Director, Trial Court Support Operations; John P. McCarthy, Jr., Assistant Director, Criminal Practice; Frank C. Farr, Assistant Director, Management Services; Dennis L. Bliss, Assistant Director, Municipal Court Services. Absent from photo: Steven Yoslov, Assistant Director, Family Practice; and .John J. Musewicz, Administrator, Appellate Division. he Administrative Office of to trial courts. Significant effort went Assignment Judges and Presiding the Courts provides staff into a series of programs for judges Judges), and Vicinage and AOC support for technical assis with administrative responsibility (i.e., managers in training for a partici T tance, operational support, pative and open management style. training, research and development, Other major training programs in budget and personnel work, and Service to trial cluded sessions on domestic violence, operation of information systems for court interpreting, mediation, child the Courts of New Jersey. The AOC is courts was em... placement review, Municipal Court the administrative arm of the Chief operations, management training for Justice in his role as head of the Court phasized via supervisors and mid-level managers, system, and its personnel work closely and training of volunteers. with judges and support staff at all technical assis... Several vital technical assistance levels of the courts, and also with bar •• programs highlighted the year. leaders, volunteers, other government tance, traInIng, Comprehensive support for the East agencies, press representatives, and Orange Municipal Court helped attack members of the public. and records a processing delay for 750,000 traffic Personnel in the AOC continued to tickets. AOC staff assisted Vicinage emphasize training and direct service management. personnel in civil case management 76 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. and recordkeeping procedures. personal computers) installed-l,OOO the effort on the Task Force on Minor Technical assistance for child during the 1988-89 term alone- as ity Concerns; and Hudson County placement review took place in ten part of the system. received a grant to create a fines and counties, and jury management The ACSES (Automated Child restitution collection program. New programs were supported in a similar Support Enforcement Services) Jersey's court system was the only one number of counties. Help in court system became operational in all 21 in the nation to receive three grants. interpreting, arbitration programs, counties; ACMS (Automated Case In addition to those projects sound recording, and child support Management System) for Civil cases mentioned above, work progressed on enforcement also took place. reached 13 counties; ATS (Automated a host of major programs. Differen AOC staff worked with several Traffic System) for Municipal Court tiated Case Management (DCM) was committees of judges and others to traffic matters came to 73 Municipal implemented in Camden, the second develop models for several major Courts handling almost one-third of county to test this approach to civil elements of the Trial Courts. The most the State's volume; PROMISjGAVEL justice reform [see page 46]. The use basic was a table of organization for was installed in four counties as part of child support hearing officers the trial court support structure, which resulted in the resolution of 59,000 examined the roles and relationships cases, a 32% increase over the of each of the major units and paved New Jersey's previous year. the way toward a structure which The 1988-89 court term marked the would not rely on "matrix" assign court system first full year of the indigency ments between probation and case determination program by the courts management divisions. Other models was the only rather than the public defender in developed included a comprehensive Criminal cases, and the courts handled approach to supervision of adult one in the na... more than 70,000 applications for probationers and a new procedure for • • indigency with AOC support. With evaluating bids for the Surrogates tlon to receIve training and a new monitoring system, Intermingled Trust Funds, which the number of overdue transcripts fell manage many millions of dollars in three grants by 21 % during the year. And direct trust for minors throughout the State. filing became operational in 16 AOC personnel also helped to from the State counties so that papers in Civil cases prepare several significant new were filed directly in the county of manuals for court operations. A Justice Insti... venue rather than centrally in Trenton. revised sentencing manual for use in Project CARE (Community the Criminal Courts was completed tute in '88... '89. Assistance in Rehabilitation Efforts) and distributed. Work progressed involving community support in significantly on a comprehensive of the mainframe system; and FACTS supervising juvenile probationers Family Court bench book, as well as a (Family Automated Case Tracking spread to seven counties. Finally, the guide for judges and staff to System) for family-related cases study of proportionality in capital procedures in domestic violence reached two counties. cases commissioned by the Supreme matters. Work also proceeded on personnel, Court made significant progress. A new manual for arbitrators was budget, and other administrative These are some of the highlights of completed, along with procedures applications, electronic mail in the the 1988-89 court year for the AOe. for arbitration in personal injury cases, Appellate Division, and local area Programs described elsewhere pursuant to recent legislation. networking for units within the especially Complementary Dispute Manuals for sound recording, direct Judiciary. Resolution and the Judiciary's filing procedures, and transcription of During 1988-89, the AOC received response to the onslaught of drug court records also were completed. funding from the State Justice Institute cases-also required considerable The 1988-89 court year was to initiate two projects, a joint study effort from AOC personnel, as did the especially significant for the with the Center for Negotiation and continuing work of committees and information systems division. By the Conflict Resolution of Rutgers the support of all elements of the court end of the year, the AOC operated two University on the civil settlement system. mainframe computers and had 2,500 process, and a study on differential devices (terminals, printers, and court usage by minorities as part of 77 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. 78 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. SUPREMEYou're viewingCOURT an archive copy from the NewCOMMITTEES Jersey State Library. The Chief Justice and the Supreme Court rely on committees for rule making and regulation, administrative recommendations, and policy review. Pictured are members of the Extrajudicial Activities Advisory Committee, chaired by Judge Baruch S. Seidman, at a recent meeting. upreme Court Committees of standing advisory committees identifies a specific area in which he are a vital component in the which are responsible for activities wishes to seek statewide policy management of the judicial related to the practice of law. guidance. The committee solicits Ssystem. The Chief Justice Regulatory committees assist the opinions from knowledgeable indivi and the Supreme Court depend upon Court to exercise its constitutional duals and interested groups and issues committees not only for rule-making responsibility to oversee the jurisdic a report detailing its decision-making and regulation, but for administrative tion of the admission of attorueys to process. recommendations, policy review, and the practice of law and the discipline Planning committees focus on identification of issues and trends of of those admitted. These committees areas of concern and interest to the major concern to the Judiciary. are staffed by volunteer attorneys and Court and may identify potential Committees are composed of funded by members of the Bar. They problems or highlight trends that will judges, court staff, lawyers, subject oversee admission to the practice of need future attention. matter experts, members of specific law, a certification program for attor Liaison committees act as vehicles groups, and the public at large. They neys who specialize. and the arbitra for dialogue and communication provide the Supreme Court or the tion and resolution of ethics matters, between the judicial system and Chief Justice with the open and candid and matters of attorney conduct and influential groups, such as sheriffs, examination of issues -critical for fee disputes. court clerks, surrogates, the media, effective decision-making. The Task forces are the largest of the and key community organizations. participation of all groups in identify committees. Often divided into sub They review programs or projects in ing areas of possible change and deba committees, Task Forces are asked to relation to how they will affect the ting those changes is most important. review a major area of court activity groups represented on the committee. Rules and rules-related commit and to develop comprehensive plans Oversight committees, such as the tees advise the Court about rules of for reform. Vicinage review com Municipal Court Education committee court. These include seven standing mittees often are recruited to give and several court computerization rules committees, which recommend feedback on the Task Force's work. policy committees, review and assess amendments and additions to the rules Most Task Forces report directly to major programs and local plans and of court, policy statements associated the Supreme Court. decide specific implementation issues. with those rules, and legislation Policy development committees related to court practice, and a number are created when the Chief Justice ..------80 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. CIVIL PRACTICE Judge Steven P. Perskie Marcia B. Richman, Esq. Judge Sylvia B. Pressler, Chair Judge Frank A. Piscatella Richard A. Russell, Esq. Beverly A. Sharps, Esq. Morris M. Schnitzer, Esq., Vice-Chair Judge Joseph F. Scancarella Judge Leonard N. Arnold Judge Isaiah Steinberg Patricia Garity Smits, Esq. Judge Murry D. Brochin Judge Norman Telsey Lynne Strober Lovett, Esq. Judge Philip S. Carchman Barry T. Albin, Esq. John J. Trombadore, Esq. Judge James D. Clyne Nicholas L. Bissell. Jr., Esq. Joseph M. Weinberg, Esq. Judge William M. D'Annunzio John M. Cannel, Esq. Jeffrey P. Weinstein, Esq. Judge Donald W. deCordova Neil S. Cooper, Esq. James P. Yudes, Esq. Judge William A. Dreier John J. DeCicco, Esq. Adele Keller, Case Manager Judge Martin L. Haines Bradley J. Ferencz, Esq. AOC Staff: Alice Stockton, Esq. Judge J. Norris Harding Theodore V. Fishman, Esq. Steven Yoslov, Esq. Judge John E. Keefe Bruce I. Goldstein, Esq. Judge Howard H. Kestin John G. Holl, Esq. Judge Paul G. Levy Douglas N. Husak Roxanne Jones-Gregory, Esq. MUNICIPAL COURTS Judge Harry A. Margolis Judge Evan W. Jahos, Chair Judge Patrick J. McGann, Jr. Dale Jones, Esq. Brian J. Neary, Esq. Judge Neil H. Shuster, Vice-Chair Judge James J. Petrella Judge Linda Feinberg Judge Paul Porreca Anthony D. Rinaldo, Jr., Esq. Alan A. Rockoff, Esq. Judge William H. Gazi Judge Edward J. Seaman Judge Joan Robinson Gross Judge Stephen Skillman Thomas S. Smith, Jr., Esq. John H. Stamler, Esq. Judge Rudolph N. Hawkins, Jr. Judge Alfred A. Slocum Judge Thomas J. Jones Judge Barbara Byrd Wecker Joan Van Pelt, Esq. Barbara A. Villano, Esq. Judge David A. Keyko Judge Lawrence Weiss Judge Frank M. Lario, Jr. Thomas T. Chappell, Esq. Robert Winter, Esq. AOC Staff: Joseph J. Barraco, Esq. Judge Fred J. Levin Gail W. Chester, Esq. John P. McCarthy, Jr., Esq. Judge Kevin McGrory Milton B. Conford, Esq. Judge Chester Morrison Kevin P. Duffy, Esq. Judge Burton C. Pariser Joseph A. Ginarte, Esq. Judge Graham T. Ross Douglas T. Hague, Esq. FAMILY PRACTICE Judge Henry E. Rzemieniewski Linda Lashbrook, Esq. Judge Eugene D. Serpentelli, Chair Judge David Schepps Edwin J. McCreedy, Esq. Justice Morris Pashman Judge Samuel J. Serata John P. McGee, Esq. Judge Dennis J. Braithwaite Judge John C. Stritehoff, Jr. Alan Y. Medvin, Esq. Judge Robert A. Fall Judge H. Robert Switzer Melville D. Miller, Esq. Judge Carmen A. Ferrante Judge James J. Walsh Lorraine C. Parker, Esq. Judge Donald P. Gaydos Thomas Benitz, Esq. Deanne Wilson Plank. Esq. Judge Herbert Glickman Harvey L. Birne, Esq. Deborah T. Poritz, Esq. Judge Martin A. Herman William G. Brigiani, Esq. Bruce M. Schragger, Esq. Judge Michael R. Immbriani Felipe Chavana, Esq. Harold A. Sherman, Esq. Judge Alexander D. Lehrer Joseph R. Coviello, Esq. William A. Thomas, Jr., Esq. Judge Samuel D. Natal Evelyn A. Donegan, Esq. Michael J. Waldman, Esq. Judge John Pisansky Harry Dreier, Esq. Alexander P. Waugh, Jr., Esq. Judge Richard S. Rebeck Terrence P. Farley, Esq. Prof. Robert Carter Judge Sylvan G. Rothenberg James W. Holzapfel, Esq. AOC Staff: Jane F. Castner, Esq. Judge Stephen Schaeffer Arnold B. Levin, Esq. Judge George H. Stanger, Jr. Francis X. Moore, Esq. Judge June Strelecki R. Garry Mundy, Esq. CRIMINAL PRACTICE Judge Thomas P. Zampino Joseph J. Rodgers, Esq. Judge Edwin H. Stem, Chair Michael Adubato, Esq. Alan Sant'Angelo, Esq. Judge Wilfred P. Diana, Vice-Chair Anne R. Bartlett, Esq. Jonathan E. Sirota, Esq. Judge Kevin G. Callahan Jan L. Bernstein, Esq. Jay G. Trachtenberg, Esq. Judge Donald S. Coburn John E. Finnerty, Esq. AOC Staff: Ira Scheff, Esq. Thomas S. Forkin, Esq. Judge R. Benjamin Cohen Judge Charles R. DiGisi Nancy Goldhill, Esq. Richard E. Hickey III, Esq. Judge Robert P. Figarotta SPECIAL CIVIL PART Judge Peter J. Giovine Lee M. Hymerling, Esq. Judge Elliot G. Heard, Jr. Pamela Copeland Kaufelt. Esq. PRACTICE Judge Barnett E. Hoffman Kathleen E. Kitson, Esq. Judge Rosemary Higgins Cass, Chair Frank A. Louis, Esq. Judge James A. Kennedy Judge John G. Himmelberger, Jr., Vice- Judge Edmond M. Kirby Martha A. Moore, Esq. Chair Judge Sybil R. Moses Anne C. Paskow, Esq. Judge Thomas C. Brown Judge George J. Nicola Myra T. Peterson, Esq. Judge Amy Piro Chambers 81 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. Judgc' 'vIaI') C. eu II Judge Warren Brody JUDICIAL SALARIES Judgc Elaillc L. Davi, Judge Philip Carchman Jud)!c :\aomi C. Eichen Judge Enninie L. Conley AND PENSIONS Judge Robert E. Gladden Judge William Dreier Justice Daniel J. O'Hem. Chair Jud)!c Jan.~d D. Honigfeld Judge E. Stevenson Fluharty Judge Lawrence Bilder, Vice-Chair Judgc Charle, A. Little Judge Myron Gottlieb Justice Gary S. Stein Judge Harold N. Nitto Judge Michael P. King Judgc H. Donald Bigley Judge Edwin J. Nyklewicz Judge Sylvia B. Pressler Judge Donald F. Campbell Judge Donald A. Smith, Jr. Judge Edwin H. Stern Judge James H. Coleman, JI', Judge Mark A. Sullivan, JI', Jetlrey B. Blitz, Esq. Judge James M. Coleman, JI', Thomas E. Cohn, Esq. John Cannel. Esq. Judge David E. Crabtree Dennis S. Deutsch, Esq. Richard Carley, Esq. Judge Charles R. DiGisi Gregory G. Diebold, Esq. Marina Carodemus, Esq. Judge Donald E. King John H. Fitzgerald, Esq. Zulima V. FarbeI', Esq. Judge Robert A. Longhi Robert H. Goodwin, Esq. Francis Hartman, Esq. Judge William J. Marchese Ira E. Kreizman, Esq. Robert E. Rochford, Esq. Judge Herman D. Michels David Left', Esq. Harvey Weissbard, Esq. Judge Arthur Minuskin Sheldon H, Pressler, Esq. Prof. Robert Carter Judge A. Jerome Moore Arthur J. Raimon, Esq. Prof. Michael Risinger Judge Peter D. Pizzuto Bruce H, Stern, Esq. AOC Slaff' Joyce Usiskin, Esq. Judge Eugene D. Serpentelli Jack Broske, Clerk, Special Civil Part Judge Arthur J. Simpson, JI', Lori B. Cooper, Case ManaRer Judge Laurence C. Stamelman Eric Fields, COUl'l Officer Judge Herbert Susser AOC SlUff: Robert D. Pitt, Esq. JUDICIAL COLLEGE Judge Theodore W. Trautwein Robert J. Piscopo AND SEMINARS AOC Slaff: Nancy R. Lichtenstein, Esq. Judge Peter W. Thomas, Chair Judge Phillip A. Gruccio, Vice-Chair TAX COURT Justice Marie L. Garibaldi MODEL JURY Judge Lawrence L. Lasser, Chair Judge Paul Bangiola Judge Michael A, Andrew, Jr" Vice-Chair Judge N. Peter Conforti CHARGES, CIVIL Justice Sidney M. Schreiber Judge Joseph L. Conn Judge Myron H. Gottlieb, Chair Judge Stephen Skillman Judge Neil F. Deighan Judge Rosemary K. Reavey, Vice-Chair James M, Cahill, Esq, Judge Samuel G. DeSimone Judge William G. Bassler Susan Ann Feeney, Esq. Judge John F. Evers Judge Coleman T. Brennan John Garippa, Esq. Judge Herbert S. Friend Judge Donald S. Coburn Sidney Glaser, Esq. Judge Anthony L. Gibson Judge Enninie L. Conley Herbert K, Glickman, Esq. Judge C. Judson Hamlin Judge Peter B. Cooper Michael A. Guariglia, Esq. Judge James M. Havey Judge Carol A. Ferentz Mary R. Hamill, Esq. Judge Mac D. Hunter Judge Burton L. Fundler Harry Hausalter. Esq. Judge David Landau Judge Maurice J. Gallipoli Richard B. Nashel, Esq. Judge Marilyn Loftus Judge Robert E. Hamer Gerald C. Neary, Esq. Judge Kenneth C. MacKenzie Judge Burton 1. Ironson Edward G. Rosenblum, Esq. Judge A. Donald McKenzie Judge Thomas B. Mannion Leo Rosenblum, Esq. Judge Stephen A. Pepe Judge Alexander J. Menza Edwin W. Schmierer, Esq. Judge Richard Newman Judge Florence R. Peskoe Saul A. Wolfe, Esq. Judge Adolph A. Romei Judge Ralph A. Polito William E. Birchall. JI'" CTA Judge Karen D. Russell Judge Amos C. Saunders Franklin Hannoch, Jr" MAl' Judge Leonard S. SachaI' Judge Isabel Brawer Stark Jack Rothstein, CPA Judge Arnold M. Stein Judge Arthur L. Troast John R. Baldwin Judge Harold B. Wells, III Judge Charles E. Villanueva Frank DeLello Douglas C. Borchard, Esq. Judge Dorothea O'c. Wefing Robert J. Durst, Esq. Ellen Goldstein Timothy L. Barnes, Esq. Frank W. Haines, Jr. Jose L. Fernandez, Esq. Michael S. Berger, Esq. Harold A. Kuskin, Jr. Vivian Sanks King, Esq. Jane B. Cantor, Esq. Gilberto Melendez S. John Picillo. Esq. Hardge Davis, JI'" Esq. Robert Pastor Dean Ronald J. Riccio Raymond F. Drozdowski, Esq. Joseph E. Rauch Dean Peter Simmons Hugh P. Francis, Esq. Slaff' Wesley R. LaBar, Esq. Dean Richard G. Singer David L. Hack, Esq. AOC Slaff: Richard L. Saks, Esq. Cynthia M. Jacob, Esq. Jose L. Linares, Esq. Mark Mattia, Esq. EVIDENCE RULES Leon B. Piechta, Esq. Judge Theodore I. Botter, Chair Ezra Rosenberg, Esq. J.'.. _ , ...._------82 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. Richard E. Shapiro, Esq. Donald A. Caminiti, Esq. BOARD OF BAR Gary S. Spagnola, Esq. Bennett H. FishIer, Jr., Esq. Eugene J. Sullivan, Esq. Mary Jean Gallagher, Esq. EXAMINERS Gary D. Thompson, Esq. Frances Goldmark, Esq. Warren W. Faulk, Esq., Chair Jac B. Weiseman, Esq. Dale E. Jones, Esq. Evan W. Jahos, Esq. Jonathan L. Williams, Esq. George J. Kenny, Esq. Donald A. Kessler, Esq. Walter T. Wolf, Esq. Kenneth S. Levy, Esq. Harriet F. Klein, Esq. AGC Staff: John J. Baxter. Esq. Andrew D. Manns, Esq. Stanley Yacker, Esq. Larry J. McClure, Esq. Eric R. Neisser, Esq. Thomas R. O'Brien, Esq. MODEL JURY Donald A. Robinson, Esq. CHARACTER Raul F. Tous, Esq. Garrett M. Heher, Esq., State Chair CHARGES, CRIMINAL Part I Judge Philip M. Freedman, Chair Professor Jerome Aumente James J. Dooley, Esq., Chair Judge Martin E. Kravarik, Vice-Chair Loretta Brennan Jose A. Chiclana, Esq. Judge Frances M. Cocchia Herb Jaffe Robert S. Feder, Esq. Judge Joseph A. Falcone Reginald Kavanaugh Catherine P. Mitchell, Esq. Judge Bruno L. Leopizzi Charles Nutt, Jr. Part II Judge John S. Kuhlthau Robert G. Ottenhoff John J. Francis, Jr. Esq., Chair Judge Miriam N. Span Richard J. Vezza Margarita Echevarria, Esq. Judge Leonard D. Ronco AGC Staff: Earl Josephson Zulima V. Farber, Esq. Judge Roger F. Mahon Raymond S. Londa, Esq. Judge Kenneth R. Stein David B. Rand. Esq. Judge Betty J. Lester ATTORNEY Joan H. Walsack, Esq. Judge John J. Dios John H. Yauch, Jr., Esq. Judge Frank M. Donato ADVERTISING Part III Judge Marianne Espinosa Murphy Francis X. Crahay, Esq.. Chair L Leo Motiuk, Esq., Chair Judge Anthony J. Iuliani Frank L. Bate, Esq. Samuel V. Convery, Jr., Esq. Ellen E. Loughney, Esq. Richard L. Bland, Jr., Esq. Robert J. Hrebek, Esq. James K. Smith, Esq. Walter L. Marshall, Jr., Esq. Laura M. LeWinn, Esq. Richard S. Lehrich, Esq. Joan L. Murphy, Esq. Paul D. McLemore, Esq. Ronald A. Susswein, Esq. Professor Todd Hunt Part IV John S. Redden, Esq. George M. Dragonetti Jeffrey I. Baron, Esq., Chair Allan J. Nodes, Esq. AGC Staff: Israel Dubin, Esq. Jane B. Cordo, Esq. Charles R. Iannuzzi, Esq. Frank M. Lario, Jr., Esq. Edwin J. Jacobs, Jr., Esq. Mary J. Maudsley, Esq. Mark E. Roddy. Esq. Ronald J. Uzdavinis, Esq. Judith Borman, Esq. BAR ADMISSIONS Part V Alan A. Rockoff, Prosecutor ADVISORY E. Neal Zimmermann, Esq., Chair AGC Staff: John P. McCarthy, Jr., Esq. Judge Florence R. Peskoe, Chair Mary Jean Gallagher, Esq. Nina Rossi, Esq. Judge Howard H. Kestin Richard M. Hluchan, Esq. Judge Barbara Byrd Wecker James J. Key, Jr., Esq. Felipe Chavana, Esq. Edward C. Laird, Esq. RELATIONS WITH Denise Cobham, Esq. Donald H. Steckroth, Esq. Catherine Curran, Esq. Dolores P. Wilson, Esq. THE MEDIA Randall Currier, Esq. Judge Ralph V. Martin, Chair Paul W. Dare, Esq. Judge Victor Friedman. Vice-Chair Warren W. Faulk, Esq. Justice Daniel J. O'Hem Garrett M. Heher, Esq. CLIENTS'SECURITY Justice Morris Pashman Evan W. Johos, Esq. FUND TRUSTEES JUdge Joseph F. Deegan, Jr. Donald A. Kessler, Esq. Howard Stern, Esq., Chair Judge LV. DiMartino Harriet F. Klein, Esq. John A. Hoffman, Esq., Treasurer Judge William F. Harth Stanley Yacker, Esq. Alan L Gould, Esq. Judge Bernard A. Kannen Dean Ronald Riccio Anne McDonnell, Esq. Judge Michael P. King Dean Paul Robinson Richard S. Miller, Esq. Judge John F. Kingfield Dean Peter Simmons Robert E. Wade, Esq. Judge Paul R. Kramer Dr. Carol B. Tucker Yolanda Rodriguez Judge Serena Perretti AGC Staff: Samuel Uberman, Esq. AGC Staff: Ella M. Scarantino Judge Thomas F. Shebell, Jr. Judge Marguerite Trovato Simon Judge Judith Yaskin Elizabeth S. Brody, Esq. Thomas J. Cafferty. Esq. 83 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. DISCIPLINARY Marl-- Ha'Ti,oll Joshua Fnedman, Esq. H(I\\ard Helfand Franci, R. Gaida, Esq. REVIEW BOARD Arthur Schroeder Gregory R. McCloskey, Esq. Raymond R. Trombadorc, I':s4., Chair Horace Sra[ford Joseph 1. Ridgway, Esq. Shirley ()'i',jeill. Esq .. Vicc-Chair William J. Sragow, Esq. Judge David D. Furman District 1/ B Edward J. BuuLyn, CPA Douglas S. Brierley, Esq. (Sollrhnll Bcrgen C(!/Illty) Herbert Friese Lee M. Hymerling, ES4. Jill L. McNish, Esq., Chair Walter Grove James R. Zazzali, Esq Robert T. Tessaro. ESlj., Vice-Chair Patricia Murray Rabbi Gen,hon B. Chertoff Morton R. Covitz, ESlj., Secretary Elizabeth L. ButT Patrice S. Andrews, Esq. J)jstrict IV Joseph B. Kenney Wendy M. Berger, Esq. (Camden & Gloucester Counties) June Rosenbaum Scheckter Albert Burstein, Esq. Peter P. Green, Esq., Chair John A. Conte, Esq. Rocco A. DePersia, Esq., Vice-Chair James E. Dow, Jr., Esq. Steven K. Kudatzky, Esq., Secretary Peter R. Feehan, Esq. Frank D. Allen, Esq. DISTRICT ETHICS Melvin Gittleman Mary E. Colalillo, Esq. District I John Dolan Harrington, Esq. Adrienne A. Elias, Esq. (At/antic, Cape May, Cumber/and, & Rita K. Nadler, Esq. Joseph H. Enos, Jr., Esq. Sa/em Counties) Michael J. Powers, Esq. Michele M. Fox, Esq. Nelson C. Johnson, Esq.. Chair Anthony G. Rathe, Esq. Paul F. Gilligan, Jr., Esq. G. Michael Brown, Esq., Vice-Chair Joseph P. Rem, Jr., Esq. Diana B. Gittelman, Esq. Ronald 1. Bloom, Esq.. Secretary Francis X. Rieger, Esq. Ronald A. Graziano, Esq. Gerald J. Batt, Esq. Warren S. Robins, Esq. James F. Hammill, Esq. Edward R Doughty, Esq. Clarence M. Frey, Jr. Roland G. Hardy, Jr., Esq. John F. Evans, Esq. Paul C. Garbarini Manya L. Kamerling, Esq. Joseph A. Fusco, Esq. Milton C. Huber Scott H. Marcus, Esq. Robert F. Garrett, III, Esq. Linda Kramer John M. Palm, Esq. Enid L. lIyberg, Esq. Philip H. While James A. Perrin, Esq. James L. Jackson, Esq. J.R. Powell, Esq. Rona Zucker Kaplan, Esq. District IlIA Janice L. Richter, Esq. Lisa R. Marquis, Esq. (Ocean County) Dante J. Sarubbi, Esq. Theodore S. Ridgway, Esq. Courtland T.Babcock, II, Esq. Chair Frank V. Tedesco, Esq. Thomas J. Subranni, Esq. Jerry J. Dasti, Esq., Vice-Chair John Tomasello, Esq. Rocco J. Tedesco, Esq. Steven Secare, Esq., Secretary Andrew Weber, Esq. James A. Waldron, Esq. Thomas L. Bace, Esq. Jamcs A. Yocum, Esq. N. Jeanne DeVico John W. Cerefice, Esq. Andrew J. Zarillo, Jr., Esq. John L. McDonnell Russell B. Cherkos, Esq. Irene C. Dickey C. Denise Regensburg Steven N. Cucci, Esq. Brenda Lee Eutsler John W. Vaughn Joseph J. Garvey, Esq. Calvin C. Ferguson Joel W. Vittori William V. Kelly, Esq. Sonia Santiago Richard J. Leone, Esq. Frank Smith District IIA Charles H. Mandell, Esq. (Northern Be1t?en County) Ann-Marie PittelJa, Esq. District VA Allen M. Bell, Esq., Chair William C. Poole, Esq. (Essex County-Newark) Anthony J. Gianni, Jr., Esq., Vice-Chair John C. Sahradnik, Esq. Michael B. Himmel, Esq., Chair Morton R. Covitz, Esq., Secretary Lorna S. Scanlon, Esq. Lanny S. Kurzweil, Esq., Vice-Chair Thomas J. Barrett, Esq. Stuart D. Snyder, Esq. Jeffrey L. Kantowitz, Esq., Secretary Allan P. Browne, Esq. Barbara A. Villano, Esq. Claire T. Barile, Esq. Mary Ann Pace Chase, Esq. Lee A. Harris William A. Cambria, Esq. Charles C. Collins, Jr., Esq. Frederick P. Ryan Dennis M. Cavanaugh, Esq. Thomas W. Dunn, Esq. Diane Turton H. Richard Chatlman, Esq. Barbara Anne Edwards, Esq. William C. Connelly, Esq. Regina R. Ford, Esq. District I1IB Edward J. Dauber, Esq. Kenneth S. Goldrich, Esq. (Burlington County) Bryna L. Edwards, Esq. Ray F. Mc Geady, Esq. R. Barry Strosnider, Esq., Chair Charles J. Hayden, Esq. Daniel P. Mecca, Esq. Estella S. Gold, Esq., Vice-Chair Margaret Dee Hellring, Esq. Myra T. Peterson, Esq. Robert D. Vetra, Esq., Secretary Lawrence S. Hom, Esq. Kenneth G. Poller, Esq. Karen L. Amacker, Esq. Irving L. Hurwitz, Esq. Charles F. Ryan, Esq. Marc M. Baldwin, Esq. Frederic S. Kessler, Esq. Paul W. Thomwall, Esq. Alan P. Bruce, Esq. Allyn Z. Lite, Esq. Edward V. Torack, Esq. Susan L. Claypoole, Esq. Jerome M. Lynes, Esq. Burt P. Augustensen Robert E. Edwards, Esq. David L. Menzel, Esq. 84 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. James C. Orr, Esq. District VI Richard Galex, Esq. Francis R. Perkins, Esq. (Hudson County) Willard Geller, Esq. Lawrence P. Platkin, Esq. Eric A. Summerville, Esq., Chair Margery S. Golin, Esq. Mary B. Rogers, Esq. James F. Ryan, Jr., Esq., Vice-Chair Robert S. Greenbaum, Esq. James A. Scarpone, Esq. Kenneth F. Lay, Esq., Secretary Jeffrey M. Hyman, Esq. Gerald P. Seid, Esq. Alicia D. Bass, Esq. Gregory Jaeger, Esq. Hayden Smith, Jr., Esq. Cara M. Corbo, Esq. William D. Levinson, Esq. John G. Magliaro Raymond T. Coughlin, Esq. Stanton Levy, Esq. Charles F. McManus Gregory Diebold, Esq. Robert J. MacNiven, Esq. William P. Saylor Daniel A. D'Alessandro, Esq. Christopher M. Placitella, Esq. Mark 1. Feiner, Esq. Frederick D. Roselli, Esq. District VB Phillip Feintuch, Esq. Gary M. Scharwtz, Esq. (Essex County-Suburban) Bruce E. Fox, Esq. Herbert L. Lipman, CPA Floyd Shapiro, Esq., Chair Horatius A. Greene, II, Esq. Monroe Amper Susan Reach, Esq., Vice-Chair Edward B. Heyd, Esq. Gloria 1. Christian Joshua M. Levin, Esq.. Secretary Beth M. Jaffe, Esq. Jeffries Shein Marilyn Askin, Esq. Michael B. Kates, Esq. Rose Marie Sinatra Barry L. Baime, Esq. Bruce W. Lerner, Esq. Charles B. Clancy, III, Esq. Ross D. London, Esq. District IX Roger J. Desiderio, Esq. Thomas P. Oliveri, Esq. (Monmouth County) Raymond J. Fleming. Esq. John A. O'Shaughnessy, Esq. Edward J. McKenna, Esq., Chair Peter A. Forgosh, Esq. Robert Weisman John T. Mullaney, Jr., Esq., Vice-Chair Anthony J. Frese, Esq. Eileen Poiani Evan W. Broadbelt, Esq., Secretary F. Michael Giles, Esq. Victor Rodriguez Dana C. Argeris, Esq. Yale L. Greenspoon, Esq. Frederick Whelply James N. Butler, Jr., Esq. Martin F. Kronberg. Esq. Lawrence A. Carton, III, Esq. Robert B. Kroner, Esq. District VII James J. Cleary, Esq. Leland S. McGee, Esq. (Mercer County) Edward C. Eastman, Jr., Esq. John J. McLaughlin, Esq. Bonnie L. Goldman, Esq., Chair Toby Grabelle, Esq. M. Richard Merklinger, Esq. Michael Medlinsky. Esq., Vice-Chair Lillian E. Harris, Esq. William R. Miller, Esq. David Botwinick, Esq., Secretary Joseph E. Kelley, III, Esq. David Schechner, Esq R. David Blake, Esq. Walton W. Kingsbery, III, Esq. Sheldon Schiffman, Esq. Lindsay L. Burbage, Esq. Joel N. Kreizman, Esq. Samuel J. Sirota, Esq. Edward J. Butrym, Esq. Dennis J. Melofchik, Esq. Morris Stem, Esq. Franklin L. Flacks. Esq. Charles M. Moriarty, Esq. Domenic D. Toto, Esq. Daniel 1. Graziano, Jr., Esq. Jamie S. Perri, Esq. William S. Black Hal K. Haveson, Esq. Ronald L. Reisner, Esq. Harry H. Gregg Richard Kelly, Esq. Helen B. Ver Strate, Esq. Alan B. Malnak Marilyn L. Kline, Esq. Frank A. Anfuso Carol L. Knowlton, Esq. Nancy Butler District VC Edward R.Palsho, Esq. William J. Rooney (Essex County-West) Thomas J. Pryor, Esq. James M. Piro, Esq., Chair Michael A. Randall, Esq. District X Mark Baumgarten, Esq., Vice-Chair Neil M. Rednor, Esq. (Morris & Sussex Counties) Patrick J. McAuley, Esq., Secretary Joseph L. Stonaker, Esq. B. Theodore Bozonelis, Esq., Chair Raymond R. Connell, Esq. Patriciia Slane Voorhese, Esq. Aron M. Schwartz, Esq., Vice-Chair Jerold E. Glassman, Esq. Jonathan D. Weiner, Esq. Kevin T. Coughlin, Esq., Secretary Andrew W. Kleppe, Esq. E. John Wherry, Jr., Esq. Peter L. Berkley, Esq. Anthony Malanga, Jr., Esq. Rev. John C. Belmont Edward M. Dunne, Esq. Kathleen S. Murphy, Esq. Adrienne Hayling Delia V. Edoga, Esq. Vincent J. Nuzzi, Esq. Vincent B. Hindley Yale L. Greenspoon, Esq Gregory B. Reilly, Esq. Edward F. Meara David Jubanowski, Esq. Ralph J. Salerno, Esq. Charles S. Stults, III Edward A. Kopelson, Esq. Harold M. Savage, Esq. Murray J. Laulicht, Esq. Edward S. Snyder, Esq. District VIII Suzanne Low, Esq. Jack J. Soriano, Esq. (Middlesex County) Donald M. Malehorn, Esq. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II, Esq. Manny Gerstein, Esq. Chair Edward D. McKirdy, Esq. Carl G. Weisenfeld. Esq. Steven D. Altman. Esq., Vice-Chair William E. Norris, Esq. Richard L. Zucker, Esq. Evan L. Goldman, Esq., Secretary L. Bruce Puffer, Esq. Rabbi Barry Friedman William G. Brigiani, Esq. Peter E. Rhatican, Esq. Kathleen Cinotti James M. Cahill, Esq. Noel E. Schablik, Esq. Gloria Frazier-Hamilton Marina Corodemus, Esq. Marguerite M. Schaffer, Esq. Denis G. Johnson Harriet Derman, Esq. Robert C. Shelton, Esq. 85 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. Patricia Garity Smits, Esq. Edward.l. (ilyllil. .II.. blj. .Io,,-,ph l' Skelley. Esq. William W. Vorhees, Jr., Esq. \Villiam W. Goodwin. .II.. blj. John E. TcnHoeye. .II.. Esq. Frank R. Allocca Richard K. .Icydcl. Esq. Bartholomew.l. Talamini. Sr. Maurice Mendel1 Rohert I. Kuchinsky. Esq. June G. Tessaro Daniel Mosley Michael K. Ligorano. ESlj. Annand S. Toron Dale G. Potter Donald K. Moore. E'lj. Guy Savino Nancy White Charles V. O'Connell. Esq. Luuise M. Rohichaud. !:::sq. District III District XI Frank .I. Stanley. Ill. Esq. (Burling/oil & Ocean Coul1/ies) (Passaic County) C. Gregory Watts. ESlj. Carl P. Schulze, Esq.. Chair George L. Garrison, Esq., Chair Rev. Richard Lothian Martin P. Gertner, Esq" Vice-Chair Ronald B. Sokalski, Esq., Vice-Chair Dorothy Bergstein Nicholas C. Montenegro. Esq., Secretary Alfred 1. Zazella, Esq.. Secretary Dale Beltzner James P. Brady, Esq. Patrick X. Amoresano, Esq. Mac Arthur Pope John l' Discepolo, Esq. Peter R. Bray, Esq. Robert M. Resnick Douglas J. Hull. Esq. Roy J. Evans, Esq. Warren S. Jones, Jr.. Esq. Joseph D. Gourley, Esq. Susan M. Rumpf, Esq. Frederick C. Heissenbuttel, Esq. Michael J. Sweeney, Esq. Robert A. Jones, Esq. DISTRICT FEE Peggy Maitland Henry Gerald Scan Keegan, Esq. ARBITRATION Ruth Jean Lolla Richard J. Kozel, Esq. District I Michael Perlmutter Margaret Mary McVeigh, Esq. (Atlantic, Cape May, Cumber/and, & Charlotte Nelson Thomas R. Raimondi, Esq. Sa/em Counties) District IV Arnold L. Stadtmauer, Esq. John A. Casarow, Jr.. Esq., Chair (Camden & Gloucester Counties) Holly C. Stem, Esq. Kenneth D. Wolfe, Esq., Vice-Chair Andrew B. Kushner. Esq., Chair Joseph S. Trapanese, Esq. Carl W. Cavagnaro, Esq.. Secretary Thomas H. Ward, Esq.. Vice-Chair Matthew 1. Trella, Esq. Doreen Corino. Esq. Thomas J. Hagner. Esq., Secretary George J. Homey Andrea DeAngelis, Esq. Carol Mills Amana, Esq. Michael Koribanies William L. Forester, Esq. Louise DiRenzo Donaldson, Esq. Denise A. Sansiveri A. Michael Barker, Esq. John V. Fiorella, Esq. Michael J. Gruccio, Esq. David W. Morgan, Esq. District XII John D. Jordan, Esq. Wayne C. Streitz, Esq. (Union County) Robert P. Lange, Esq. Claudio E. Arrington Theodore J. Romankow, Esq., Chair Mona R. Raskin, Esq. Mary Previte Luis R. Sanchez, Esq., Vice-Chair Brian S. Thomas, Esq. W. Andrew Robinson Nicholas D. Caruso, Esq., SecretGlY Olive F. Barry Kathryn A. Brock, Esq. Susan M. Moore District VA Frederick A. 0'Arcangelo, Esq. Martha B. Keates (Essex County-Newark) Andrew M. Epstein, Esq. Barbara Schwartz Joseph P. LaSala, Esq., Mary D. Gillen, Esq. Chair Harold Friedman, Esq., Gerald T. Glennon, Esq. Vice-Chair District IIA Dora Bobbitt, Esq., Philip M. Krevsky, Esq. Secretary (Northern Bergen COl/nty) Stephen H. Knee, Esq. Thomas V. Manahan, Esq. Michael N. Boardman. Esq., Chair Michael B. Tischman, Esq. Harvey Schwartzberg, Esq. Dennis P. LaHiff, Esq., Vice-Chair Stanley Weiss, Esq. Kirk D. Rhodes, Esq. Charles Bergamo, Esq., Secretary Frank Albright Leonard A. Wolkstein, Esq. C. Boyd Cote, Esq. Ben Berzin, Jr. E. Alfred Herberich Charles J.X. Kahwaty, Esq. Rosalie Burrows Concetta Juliano Scott R. Lippert, Esq. Theodore R. Murnick Thomas E. Leonard Carol K. Silberstein, Esq. Nelson J. Fullam District VB District XIII Leonard S. Gudelski (Essex County-Suburban) (Hunterdon, Somerset, & Warren Jeffrey Lehmann Richard B. Goldsmith, Esq, Chair Counties) Rosalie Green Rozen John H. Watson, Jr., Esq., Vice-Chair M. Karen Thompson, Esq., Chair Beverly Sirota, Esq., Secretary David Linett, Esq., Vice-Chair District lIB Clarence Barry-Austin, Esq. Carol S. Perlmutter, Esq., Secretary (Southern Bergen County) Sydney Dornbusch, Esq. Jane R. Altman. Esq. Terry Paul Bottinelli, Esq., Chair Avrom J. Gold, Esq. Ann R. Bartlett, Esq. Donald L. Garber, Esq.. Vice-Chair Nathaniel S. Goldring, Esq. Richard F. Collier, Jr., Esq. Kevin T. Rigby, Esq., Secretary Foscolo J. Caprio, DDS Richard M. Conley. Esq. John R. DeSheplo, Esq. Juanita Cowan John J. Coyle, Jr., Esq. H. Scott Hart, Esq. Leonard S. Greenfield John P. Gallina, Esq. Michael\. Lubin, Esq. Shirley Hollie-Davis David S. Gaus, Esq. Hebert L. McCarter, Esq. Leonard R. Wood 86 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. District VC Nathan Witkin Michael R. Reitman. Esq. (Essex County-West) Adelaide Zargoren Ben J. Zander, Esq. Dierdre M. Barz, Esq., Chair Gary Barr Charles S. Lorber, Esq., Vice-Chair District IX Leanore Kogan Stuart Gold, Esq., Secretary (Monmouth County) Elizabeth Rumsey Grant M. Gille, Esq. Richard W. Wight, Esq., Chair Solomon Sern Laurence B. Orloff, Esq. Martin J. McGreevy, Esq., Vice-Chair Harry J. Del Plato, Esq. Michael R. Rubino, Jr., Esq., Secretary District XIII Thomas J. Spies, Jr., Esq. Dominick A. Cerrato, Esq. (Hunterdon, Somerset, & Warren Gerald M. Jaffe, Ph.D. Wanda Williams Finnie. Esq. Counties) Gregory B. Russell William P. Gilroy, Esq. Michael J. Stanton, Esq.. Chair Donald Schlenger James B. MacDonald, Esq. Miles S. Winder, III, Esq.. Vice-Chair Mary Patricia Magee, Esq. Stuart C. Ours, Esq., Secretary District VI Michael Pappa, Esq. David S. Bunevich, Esq. (Hudson County) Michael B. Steib, Esq. Robert J. Elwood, Jr., Esq. Irving I. Vogelman, Esq., Chair Thomas T. Warshaw, Esq. Elinor P. Mulligan, Esq. Erwin E. Pollack, Esq. Vice-Chair Rev. Rufus C. Goodman Joseph S. Novak, Esq. Donald F. Stevens, Esq., Secretary Maxine F. Crespy Terrence O'Connor, Esq. Patricia K. Costello, Esq. Robert Strickland John J. Cust, Jr. Anthony J. DeSalvo, Esq. Gloria Williams Jesse H. Lawrence, Jr. Gregory Farmer, Esq. Sherry B. Wolfe William M. Phillips, Jr. Martha M. Martinez, Esq. Maureen P. Sogluizzo, Esq. District X John Tomasin, Esq. (Morris & Sussex Counties) Richard P. Venino, Esq. Anita Hotchkiss, Esq.. Chair ETHICS FINANCIAL Waldron Kraemer, Esq., Chair Raymond E. Bulin Salem V. Ahto, Esq., Vice-Chair Justice Alan B. Handler B. Jack Lawska Gerald M. Compeau, Jr., Esq., Secretary David K. Ansell, Esq. Harold H. McCabe, Jr. Remo A. Caputo, Esq. Gerald J. Batt, Esq. Ethel Rosenthal Michael C. Gaus, Esq. Matthias D. Dileo, Esq. Joseph R. Stancati Gregory C. Parliman, Esq. Katharine S. Hayden. Esq. Susan M. Sharko, Esq. Gloria K. Koenig, Esq. District VII Brian M. Laddey Robert D. Lipscher. Esq. (Mercer County) Dudley S. North Howard Stem, Esq. Lawrence E. Popp, Esq. Chair Jeffrey M. Parrott AGC Staff: Colette A. Coolbaugh, Esq. Maria M. Sypek, Esq.. Vice-Chair Barbara T. Wilson Robyn M. Hill, Esq. Robert DeAngelis, Esq., Secretary David E. Johnson, Jr., Esq. Steven Blader. Esq. District XI James J. Britt, Jr., Esq. (Passaic County) Paul D. McLemore, Esq. Carl E. Klotz, Esq., Chair Barbara Strapp Nelson. Esq. John J. Scura, Esq., Vice-Chair EXTRAJUDICIAL Jeffrey S. Posta, Esq. Randolph A. Newman, Esq., Secretary Robert N. Ridolfi. Esq. Harold P. Cook, IlL Esq ACTIVITIES Bruce Shore, Esq. Robert A. Drexel, Esq. ADVISORY Jane Bilik Philip A. Fenster, Esq. Judge Baruch S. Seidman, Chair Polly DiGiovacchino John P. Goceljak, Esq. Judge A. Donald Bigley Laura L. Kitts Lawrence D. Katz, Esq. Judge Peter Ciolino James Litvak Catherine P. Mitchell, Esq. Judge John W. Fritz Victor K. Rabbat. Esq. Judge Virginia Long District VIII Michael John Sweeney, Esq. Judge R. Kevin McGrory (Middlesex County) Thomas J. Maher Judge Worrall F. Mountain Leslie S. Lefkowitz. Esq., Chair Eugene C. Meyers Judge William H. Walls Frank Cofone, Jr., Vice-Chair Grace E. Meyer Albert Burstein, Esq. David B. Rubin, Esq., Secretary James Ruitenberg William J. Shepherd Charles V. Booream, III. Esq. AGC Staff: Nancy Lichtenstein. Esq. Elaine Brennan, Esq. District XII Jose M. Cameron, Esq. (Union County) Frank Cofone, Jr., Esq. James F. Keefe, Esq., Chair John R. DeNoia. Esq. Kathleen B. Estabrooks, Esq., Vice-Chair JUDICIAL CONDUCT Martin W. Fox, Esq. Nicholas D. Caruso, Esq., Secretary ADVISORY Marianne McKenzie. Esq. Kevin J. Daly, Esq. Judge Mark A. Sullivan, Chair Christine D. Petruzzell. Esq. Jeffrey S. Charney, Esq. Judge Sidney M. Schreiber, Vice-Chair Mark J. Richman. Esq. Bette R. Grayson. Esq. Lorraine A. Abraham, Esq. Charles James Stewart Robert J. Lenahan, Esq. Rossell N. Fairbanks, Esq. 87 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. ·C. Harwood. III, Esq. UNAUTHORIZED AI 1(' .\(ufr JO"'ph J. Barraco. C'q. F. Kugler, Ir., Esq. John I) McC.lrthy. Jr.. E'q. . Walter F. Murphy PRACTICE OF LAW 'Robert L. Boyle Harrv C. PelerVlIl. E'q.. C!luir William M. Morton Samuel J. Siwla. ~ icc-Clwil AOC Staff: Patrick J. Monahan. Jr. Richard J. Radolato. Esq. CHILD PLACEMENT Roben Rarajas, Esq. ADVISORY COUNCIL Samuel Carotenuto. Esq. Lawrcnl'C Adamsun Maurice Y. Cole. Esq. Beverly Amman JUDICIAL Morrill J. Cole. Esq. Karen Anderson PERFORMANCE Maria M. DeFilippis. Esq. Mae Benson Justice Alan B. Handler, Chair John Dolan Harrington. Esq. Geraldine Blum Judge Daniel R. Coburn Dorothy A. Henry. Esq. Carl C. Bowman Judge Samuel G. DeSimone James F. Keegan. Esq. Dr. Porter Brashier Judge Dominick Ferrelli Henry B. Kessler, Esq. Suzanne Byers Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin Peter L. Korn. Esq. Joyce Smith Carter Judge L. Anthony Gibson James R. Lacey. E,;q. Cynthia Collins Judge Marilyn Loftus Edwin K. Large, Jr., Esq. Geraldine Coppola Judge Ralph V. Martin Patricia R. LeBon, Esq. Sherry Cunningham Judge James J. Petrella Paul M. O'Gara. Esq. Jean Delorenzo Melvyn H. Bergstein, Esq. Robert A. Petito, Esq. Rev. Frederick Eid Irwin I. Kimmelman, Esq. Lawrence W. Point, Esq. Ted Flaeh George F. Kugler, Esq. Robert G Rose, Esq. Gloria Ford Louis Pashman, Esq. Stephen Roseman, Esq. Fran Fomarotto William B. Scatchard, Jr., Esq. William V. Roverto, Esq. Andrea Freedman John L. White, Esq. Harry K. Seybolt, Esq. Claire Greene Dean Catherine R. Stimpson AGC Staff' Michael L. Barry, Esq. Rebecca Guess George T. Boyer Sandra Guido AGC Staff Richard L. Saks. Esq. Joan Himclman Richard J. Young ARBITRATION Gair Houlihan Judy Kingsland ADVISORY Alfred Kirschmeier OPINIONS Judge Nicholas Mandak, Chair Virginia Kline Retired Justice Haydn Proctor, Chair Judge Harvey Halberstadter Jean Krauss Retired Justice Mark A. Sullivan Judge Gerald Weinstein Liz: Manger Retired Judge William G. Bischoff Robert J. Casulli, Esq. Belinda Manning Douglas T. Hague, Esq. Janet Moore Jonathan M. Hyman, Esq. Mildred \'Ioore PROFESSIONAL Samuel D. Lord, Esq. Frances E. Parisi Harold A. Shennan, Esq. Angel Perez ETHICS ADVISORY louis A. Smith, Esq. Glenna Peters Everett M. Scherer, Esq., Chair Susan Johnson Barbara Rich T. Girard Wharton, Esq., Vice-Chair AGC Staff: Michelle V. Perone, Esq. Dianne Robinson Frank L. Bate, Esq. Faith Schindler G. Thomas Bowen, Esq. Toni Schott Morris Brown, Esq. Betty Sinha Blaine E. Capehart, Esq. TRIAL JUDGES Shirley Slayton Frank J. Cuccio, Esq. COMMITTEE ON Joan Smith James Dorment, Jr., Esq. Thelma Stokes Richard J. Fay, Esq. CAPITAL CAUSES Gemma Sullivan Theodore W. Geiser, Esq. Judge John Marzulli, Chair Dorothy Sullivan Jay H. Greenblatt, Esq. Judge John P. Arnone Paulette Sweeney Cynthia M. Jacob, Esq. Judge Leonard N. Arnold Trudy Syphax Victor R. King, Esq. Judge David S. Baime Kenneth Unice Melville D. Miller, Jr., Esq. Judge Kevin G. Callahan William Vaughn Seymour A. Smith, Esq. Judge Donald S. Coburn Ann Walko Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J. Judge LV. DiMartino Seymour Wallach Dr. Harris I. Effross Judge Michael Patrick King Selena White Madeline McWhinney Judge Patrick J. McGann, Jr. Ceil Zalkind AGC Staff: Israel Dubin, Esq. Judge Nicholas Scalera Judge Isaiah Steinberg Judge Edwin H. Stem 88 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. CIVIL AND FAMILY AGC Staff: John MacCalus Judge Barbara Byrd Wecker Theodore Fetter Melvyn Bergstein, Esq. MOTION PRACTICE Elizabeth S. Brody, Esq. Judge William A. Dreier, Co-Chair The Supreme Court Committee on Thomas E. Cohn, Esq. Judge Carmen A. Ferrante, Co-Chair Courthouse Facilities has produced a draft Bernard F. Conway, Esq. Judge Carol A. Ferentz of facilities guidelines to help trial courts, Robert P. Corman, Esq. Judge Myron H. Gottlieb local architects and planners, and county Frank Cristaudo, Esq, Judge Harvey Halberstadter governing bodies when discussions on Donald Droste, Esq. Judge Paul G. Levy courthouse construction or renovation Gerald Eisenstat, Esq. Judge Barbara Byrd Wecker arise. The committee worked with Walter Linda Fish, Esq, Mark Bie!, Esq. H. Sobel and Associates and the Vaughn Alan M. Grosman, Esq. John T. Dolan, Esq. Organization in preparing the guidelines. Michael M. Hom, Esq. Lee M. Hymerling, Esq. The guidelines are to be submitted to the Sanford M. Jaffe, Esq. Myra T. Peterson, Esq. Supreme Court for its review. Robert D. Lipscher, Esq. Edward S. Snyder, Esq. Guidelines include assistance in the Frank Lloyd, Esq. Roger C. Steedle, Esq. design and furnishing of courtrooms, Frank A. Louis, Esq. Lynne Strober-Lovett, Esq. support offices, and related public space. Paul J. McCurrie, Esq. AGC Staff: John J. Baxter, Esq. They are tailored to accommodate the James E. McGuire, Esq. Raymond A. Noble, Esq. structure and operations of the New Jersey John J. McLaughlin, Esq. Alice C. Stockton, Esq. courts, based on the designation of three Eric Max, Esq. separate but interrelated sectors in the Janice Miller, Esq. courthouse. These sectors are for the Melville D. Miller, Jr., Esq. public and the litigants, the judges and Jesse Moskowitz, Esq. COURT support staff, and the holding and Barbara Nagle, Esq. APPOINTMENTS OF transportation of prisoners. Each sector is Robert E. Ramsey, Esq. secure, but interactions and communi Richard D. Trenk, Esq. FIDUCIARIES, cations need to be incorporated in Saul A. Wolfe, Esq. COUNSEL, AND courtrooms and other places in the R. Stephen Wright, Esq. courthouse. Charles E. McCaffery, TCA EXPERTS Prof. Ralph Bean Judge Eugene D. Serpentelli, Chair Prof. Jonathan M. Hyman Judge Edward W. Beglin, Jr. Prof. Kenneth Kressel Judge Elaine L. Davis DISPUTE Prof. Harold Launer Judge Samuel G. DeSimone RESOLUTION Prof. Paul B. Wice Judge L. Anthony Gibson James 1. Barry, Jr. Judge Phillip A. Gruccio TASKFORCE John Craig Judge Kevin McGrory Justice Marie L. Garibaldi, Chair Reginald Jeffries Judge Samuel Serata Judge Leonard N. Arnold Kenneth D. Merin Judge Arthur J. Simpson, Jr. Judge Philip S. Carchman Jose Morales Judge Arnold B. Stein Judge Rosemary Higgins Cass Rena Plaxe John 1. Degnan, Esq. Judge James D. Clyne Marilyn Sebastian Morton Deitz, Esq. Judge David S. Cramp Linda Stamato Barry H. Evenchick, Esq. Judge John F. Crane Steven Traub Frank A. Louis, Esq. Judge Elaine L. Davis Heather S. Wilcauskas Samuel J. Sirota, Esq. Judge Samuel G. DeSimone Betty Wilson John J. Trombadore, Esq. Judge John G. Dyer, 1lI AGC Staff: Steven D. Bonville, Esq. Charles J. Casale, Jr. Judge Linda Feinberg Donald F. Phelan AGC Staff: Michael Barry, Esq. Judge Martin L. Haines Marilyn C. Slivka Alice C. Stockton, Esq. Judge Harvey Halberstdter Judge John G. Himmelberger, Jr. Judge Burrellives Humphreys Judge John E. Keefe INTENSIVE COURTHOUSE Judge David A. Keyko SUPERVISION FACILITIES Judge Theodore J. Labrecque, Jr. Judge L. Anthony Gibson, Chair Judge Paul A. Lowengrub ADVISORY BOARD Judge Kevin McGrory Judge John A. Marzulli, Chair Judge A. Donald Bigley Judge Carmen A. Ferrante Judge Nicholas G. Mandak Judge William F. Harth Kathryn A. Brock, Esq. Judge Nicholas Scalera Judge George J. Nicola John M. Cannel, Esq. Damian G. Murray, Esq. Judge Edward J. Seaman Eugene L. Farkas, TCA Judge Eugene D. Serpentelli James Hemm, Esq. John N. Miri, TCA Judge Thomas F. Shebell, Jr. James Mulvihill, Esq. Dean Stanford Greenfield Judge Donald A. Smith Thomas S. Smith, Jr., Esq. Judge Birger M. Sween Dr. Don M. Gottfredson 89 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. ,\Ian Rod.oll. p(O\C(/(!O! J illl Pious is. Sheriff R.4:41 to facilitate the use of special Wilbur 1:::. Bnlll 11 Williclm J. Simon. Shcn/t masters on a limited basis, with consent of Barbar~l CJrecr LI. John Reynold, litigants or under other extraordinary Nicholas h(lrC AOC Sliltr David P. Anderson. Jr. circumstances and upon approval by an Isaac W. Hopklm Assignment Judge. and a similar Haldane King relaxation ot R. 5:25-2 to facilitate the Louis !\iickopoulos appointment of advisory referees in certain David Phillips JUDICIARY/ minor juvenile delinquency matters. also Stanley Repko SURROGATES' upon approval of the Assignment JUdge: AOC Stoff" Harvey M. Goldstein and a more far-reaching pilot proposal for LIAISON a Corps of Judicial Commissioners, made Judge Edward W. Beglin. Chair lip of judicial officers. with functions Judge Frederick C. Kentz. Jr. similar to United States Magistrates. 1989 JUDICIAL Judge Robert A. Longhi CONFERENCE Judge Patrick J. McGann. Jr. Patricia Bennett Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz, MINORITY Co-Chair Donald W. DeLeo Judge Julia L Ashbey, Co-Chair Robert Hentges CONCERNS TASK Judge Salvatore Bovino Anne E. Reiker Judge Dennis J. Braithwaite Joseph Tighue FORCE Judge Carmen A. Ferrante Donald H. Wagner Executive Committee Judge Elliott G. Heard, Jr. AGC Staff: Michelle V. Perone. Esq. Judge Theodore Z. Davis, Chair Judge B. Thomas Leahy Judge James H. Coleman, Jr. Judge Samuel D. Natal Judge John J. Dios Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Judge Robert W. Page MASTERS AND Judge Richard J. Williams Judge John E. Wallace, Jr. Judge Judith A. Yaskin HEARING OFFICERS Stanley C. Van Ness, Esq. Dean Horace DePodwin Judge Nicholas Scalera, Chair Stephen Wiley, Esq. Robert D. Lipscher, Esq. Judge Kevin G. Callahan James R. Zazzali, Esq. Diane Robinson Judge L. Anthony Gibson AGC Staff. Robert Joe Lee Thomas F. Lynch, Jr. Judge Martin L. Haines Yolande P. Marlow AGC Staff: Harvey M. Goldstein Judge Conrad W. Krafte Steven Yoslov, Esq. Judge Edward Miller Criminal Justice Committee Judge Theodore Winard Stephen Wiley, Esq.. Chair Judge Freda L Wolfson Judge Phillip S. Carchman Douglas C. Borchard. Jr., Esq. Judge Lawrence M. Lawson JUDICIARY/COUNTY Eugene M. Purcell, Esq. Judge Betty J. Lester William E. Reifsteck, Esq. Janetta D. Marbrey, Esq. CLERK LIAISON Alfred A. Slocum, Esq. Justice Stewart G. Pollock, Paul A. Rowe, Esq. Chair Herbert H. Tate, Jr., Esq. Judge Peter Ciolino Morris Schnitzer. Esq. Hector Velazquez. Esq. Judge DiMartino Alfred A. Slocum, Esq. I.v. Theodore Wells. Esq. Judge Samuel D. Lenox Howard Stem, Esq. Rev. Raul Comensanas Robert D. Lipscher, Esq. Saul A. Wolfe, Esq. Prof. Jameson Doig John Mayson. Thomas J. Vesper, Esq. Superior Court Clerk Prof. Dun M. Gottfredson Albert Driver Michael J. Arnold AGC SlUff: John P. McCarthy, Jr.. Esq. Theodore J. Fetter AGC Stafl: Raymond A. Noble, Esq. Bonnie Palace M. Dean Haines Michelle V. Perone, Esq. Walter Halpin Minorities and Juvenile Justice Terrence Lee During the 1988-89 court year, the Committee AGC Staff: David P. Anderson, Jr. efforts of the Supreme Court Committee on Masters & Hearing Officers were Judge Shirley A. Tolentino, Chair focused largely on solicitation and analysis Judge Julio M. Fuentes of comments received in response to its Judge Elliott G. Heard, Jr. JUDICIARY/SHERIFF preliminary report and in preparation of its Judge Mac D. Hunter Supplemental Report to the Supreme Kevin I. Daniels, Esq. LIAISON Court, containing the Committee's Lee M. Hymerling, Esq. Judge LV. DiMartino, Chair conclusions following review of the William Coleman Judge Edward W. Beglin, Jr. comments. Peter Lous Judge Burrell Ives Humphreys The Committee has recommended two Donald Parker Judge Hernlan L. Breitkopf proposals for the expanded use of high Ramon Rivera Frank W. Kirkleski, Jr., TCA level judicial assistants and adjuncts on an Betty Wilson John Fox, Sheriff experimental basis. i.e. a one-year, AGC Staff: Steven Yoslov, Esq. Ralph G. Froehlich, Sheriff statewide test of the proposed relaxation of 90 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. Minority Access to Justice Committee Prosecutor Ronald S. Fava Yvonne C. LaMons Judge John E. Wallace, Chair Joseph D. Barba Judge Severiano Lisboa, III Marianne Koshland Judge Marilyn Loftus Steven A. Traub Joseph Almeida, Esq. AGC Staff: Ira Scheff, Esq. STATE ADVISORY Patricia Atkins, Esq. BOARD FOR Robert Pickett, Esq. David Stevenson, Esq. PROBATION Stanley C. Van Ness, Esq. PATHFINDERS Dr. Horace 1. DePodwin, Chair Sue Pai Yang, Esq. Judge Robert W. Page, Chair Robert D. Lipscher, Esq. Prof. Stephen H. Balch Judge Rosalie B. Cooper William D. Manns, Jr., Esq. Edward Brown Judge Howard H. Kestin Rev. Albert C. Clayton Edward Lenihan Judge B. Thomas Leahy Dr. Todd R. Clear Miguel Rivera Judge Birger M. Sween Dr. Paul Lerman AGC Staff: Keith M. Endo, Esq. Nancy Kessler, Esq. Dr. Bohdan Yaworsky Jude DelPreore Peter N. Brill Minority Participation in the Judicial Cynthia Land Ross H. Doyle Process Committee Charles McGarigle Harold Holloway James R. Zazzali, Esq., Chair AGC Staff: Carol Lesniowski Dawn Jennings Judge Paulette Brown Steven Yoslov, Esq. Charlann Lamberto Judge James H. Coleman, Jr. Edward J. Lenihan Judge John J. Dios PLEA AGREEMENTS Barbara McLaughlin Judge Paulette M. Sapp-Peterson Diane Scott-Bey Judge Cornelius P. Sullivan IN MUNICIPAL Candace Tice-Tomasik Clarence Barry-Austin, Esq. COURTS Richard van den Heuvel Alicia Olivera Valle, Esq. AGC Staff: Mary E. lrven Judge Evan W. Jahos. Chair Dean Peter Simmons Judge Linda R. Feinberg Bruce Coe Judge Joan Robinson Gross PROBATION TABLE AGC Staff: Karen D. Carbonello Judge David A. Keyko Douglas Childs, Esq. Judge R. Kevin McGrory OF ORGANIZATION Theodore J. Fetter Judge Clifford J. Minor Judge Philip A. Gruccio, Chair John Mayson, Esq. Judge Samuel J. Serata Judge Edward W. Beglin, Jr. Judge Neil H. Shuster Judge Martin L. Haines Judge Edwin H. Stem Judge Nicholas G. Mandak MINORS FUNDS Danise A. Cobham, Esq. Judge Reginald Stanton Allen S. Ferg. Esq. Robert D. Lipscher, Esq. Judge Reginald Stanton, Chair Dennis A. Murpyy, Esq. Judge Edward W. Beglin Samuel C. Inglese, Esq. Martin J. McGreevey, Esq. Wilbur E. Brown, CPO Dorothy G. Black, Esq. Gregory Edwards, TCA Joseph P. Brennan, Esq. James F. Mulvihill, Esq. Vincent J. Nuzzi, Esq. Nicholas Fiore, VCPO George J. Kenny, Esq. Norman Helber, VCPO I. Candido Rodriguez, Jr., Esq. Daniel Lubetkin, Esq. Adele Keller, Case Manager Ann P. Conti, Surrogate Gerald M. Eisenstat, Esq. Mayor Arthur J. Holland Dr. Horace J. DePodwin Harry A. Freitag, Jr., Surrogate AGC Staff: Theodore J. Fetter C. Dr. Susan Lederman, Ph.D. Frank Farr Harvey M. Goldstein AGC Staff: Robert D. Pitt, Esq. Alan A. Rockoff, Prosecutor Mia Anderson William T. Hayes Lynn J. Hoagland PROMIS/GAVEL MUNICIPAL COURT Harold Meltz Dennis O'Hara POLICY EDUCATION Judge Kevin G. Callahan Judge David A. Keyko, Chair Col. Clinton L. Pagano R. Bruce Phillips, Police Chief Judge John P. Kaye Judge Angelo J. DiCamillo Judge Cornelius P. Sullivan Judge Anthony J. Frasca Capt. Joseph M. Paulillo Joseph Walker, Police Chief Judge Lee S. Trumbull Judge Evan William Jahos John P. McCarthy, Jr., Esq. Judge Thomas Patrick Kelly Steve Schreiber Alfred A. Slocum Dr. Wayne Fisher Judge John P. McFeeley, III Steven Terry Judge R. Kevin McGrory William T. Taylor Doris M. Weisberg John G. Holl Judge J.R. Powell Robert Johnson Judge David Schepps H. Raymond Young AGC Staff: Dennis L. Bliss, Esq. James R. Rebo Judge Samuel J. Serata AGC Staff: James Mannion Judge Neil H. Shuster Ira Scheff, Esq. E. John Wherry. Esq. Robert J. Carney 91 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. SECURITY & Pctcr E. Rhatlcan. Esq. Judgc Richard r\ewman Alan Roth. Esq. Judge Peter W. Thomas PRIVACY Jonathan L. Willi,lIns, Esq. Judge Eugene D. Serpcl1tclli Justice Stewart G. Pollock. Chair Edith Frank Rohert D. Lipscher. Esq. Judge Jame, J. Petrella Ronal(i .Icne; I\OC Staff: Richard L. Saks. Esq. Judge Sterhen J. Schaeffer Richard F. Jones David K. Ansell. Esq. Jo Ann L. Messina Charles E. McCaffery. TCA AGe Stall: Robert D. Lipscher, Esq. James R. Rebo Harold Rubenstein. Esq. SUPERIOR COURT Stafr Wesley R. laBar, Esq. CLERK'S IMPLEMENTATION STATEWIDE REDUCTION OF TASKFORCE RECORDS Judge I.v. DiMartino, Chair UNDUE SENTENCING MANAGEMENT Jane F. Castner. Esq. DISPARITY & Alice Stockton, Esq. ADVISORY John M. Mayson, Superior Court Clerk IMPROVED Judge Alvin Yale Milberg, Chair David P. Anderson, Jr. AI Driver, Count\' CierI: Frank C. Farr SENTENCING James Flynn, Appellate Deputy Clerk Arnold Miller PROCEDURES John Mayson, Superior COlirt Clerk John Neufeld Judge Cornelius P. Sullivan. Chair James M. Parkison, TCA Jane Trezza Judge Elliott G. Heard, Jr. Richard Prifold, Case Manager AOC Stafr Donald F. Phelan Judge Kevin G. Callahan Richard Scardilli, Court Reporter Judge Philip M. Freedman Stephen Townsend. Supreme Court Clerk Judge Barnett E. Hoffman David P. Anderson, Jr. SUPERVISED Judge Michael R. Imbriani Gori Carfora Judge Thomas F. Shebell, Jr. Jude DelPreore VISITATION Judge Miriam N. Span Joseph Falca Judge Edwin H. Stem Robert Lowe ADVISORY Judge Stephen J. Schaeffer Prof. Milton Heumann Donald F. Phelan James P. Yudes, Esq. Prof. Richard G. Singer James Rebo Frank W. Kirkleski, Jr., TCA AOC Staff: Joseph 1. Barraco, Esq. Richard Vaughn John N. Miri, TCA Deborah Collins. Esq. AOC Staff: Opal Palmer Lois Cuthbert John P. McCarthy. Jr., Esq. The Statewide Records Management Jude DelPreore Advisory Committee met for the first time Jane Frost-Guzzo in December 1989 where its charge was Shirley M. Gurisic SENTENCING given: "To assist the National Center for Zellie Thomas EFFECTIVENESS State Courts in developing a compre Joanne Tsonton hensive records management program for !lOC Staff: Edward Miklosey Prof. Don Gottfredson the Judiciary." Prof. Milton Heumann To date, the Committee has developed Prof. Mark Moore and distributed questionnaires to all state Jacqueline Cohen TRAINING ADVISORY and trial court offices with the intent of Sally Hillsman cullecting current records management AGe Staff: John P. McCarthy, Jr., Esq. COUNCIL practices throughout the State. In Fern Aaronson addition, the project staff from the Glendon W. Bell National Center has made site visits and Fred Bostel SETTLEMENT conducted interviews in several trial court Vincent Carnevale offices. Ann Condon PROCESS CorneIius Elsasser Judge Peter F. Boggia James Haggerty Judge Samuel G. DeSimone Mark Hengemuhle Judge Maurice J. Gallipoli COMMITTEE TO Veronica Howell Judge Martin L. Haines Collins Ijoma Judge Serena Perretti STUDY COURT TIME Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin, Ethan Janowitz Judge Edward J. Seaman Chair Judge Peter Ciolino Robert B. Kafka William C. Carey. Esq. Judge L. Anthony Gibson Debbie Krawiec Sanford M. Jaffe, Esq. Judge Philip A. Gruccio John Krieger Richard J. Levinson. Esq. Judge Martin L. Haines Robert LeSauvage James C. Orr. Esq. Judge Samuel D. Lenox, Jr. Gayle Maher 92 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. David E. May Judge Steven Z. Kleiner providing or subsidizing day care for its JoAnn L. Messina Judge Betty J. Lester employees was a contributing factor. Dorothy Milligan Judge Virginia A. Long A major effort was concentrated on Joseph Mullen Judge Florence R. Peskow working with two nationally known Julie Nomides Judge Nicholas Scalera experts on gender bias in the courts, who Joan O'Brien Judge Thomas F. Shebell, Jr. prepared an evaluation of the six years of Alice Rier Judge Mary Ellen Talbot effort of the Task Force, which was the Thomas T. Riordan Hector E. DeSota, Esq. first in the nation. The evaluation, Betty Lou Sochocky William J. Kearns, Jr., Esq. released in May, noted that the Task Joan Sooy Susan R. Oxford, Esq. Force's greatest accomplishment, and one AGC Staff: John Neufeld Lynn Hecht Schafran, Esq. of "great enduring significance," has been Phoebe W. Scham, Esq. in "creating a climate within the court Helen Handin Spiro, Esq. system in which the nature and Theodosia A. Tamborlane, Esq. consequences of judicial gender bias are WELLNESS Raymond R. Trombadore, Esq. both acknowledged to exist and JUdge James D. Clyne, Chair Dolores Pegram Wilson, Esq. understood to be unacceptable.... Judge Herbert S. Alterman Emily Arnow Alman, J.D., Ph.D. Although gender bias has not been Judge Elaine L. Davis Prof. Roger S. Clark eliminated from the New Jersey Courts," Judge Rocco L. D'Ambrosio Prof. Elizabeth F. Defeis the report concluded, "it has been greatly Judge Joseph F. Deegan, Jr. Prof. Annamay Sheppard reduced...and the possibility now exists for Judge Donald A. Smith, Jr. Prof. Nadine Taub even greater progress." AGC Staff: Nancy R. Lichtenstein, Esq. Catherine S. Sweeney The evaluation report also observed Eileen Thorton that the Task Force can rightly claim to AGC Staff: Marilyn Slivka have "played a pivotal role in American TASK FORCE ON Judicial reform...and inspired a nationwide In the 1988-89 court year, the Task gender bias task force movement." In WOMEN IN THE Force continued its work to oversee May, the Chair and staff participated in a COURTS implementation of the recommendations National Conference on Gender Bias Judge Marilyn Loftus, Chair contained in its earlier reports. One major sponsored by the National Center for State Judge Julia L. Ashbey milestone was the opening in September Courts and the National Association of Judge Rosemary Higgins Cass of "Justice Juniors," a child-care center Women Judges. Justice Alan B. Handler Judge Philip S. Carchman jointly serving the four agencies housed in gave the keynote speech for this gathering Judge Elaine L. Davis the Justice Complex. While the Task of the chairs and staff of most of the 27 Judge Theodore Z. Davis Force cannot claim credit for this states which now have gender bias task Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin accomplishment, its recommendation that forces. Judge Michael Patrick King the Court study the possibility of 93 You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library. You're viewing an archive copy from the New Jersey State Library.