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Certification granted 3/4/10
Argued: 10/26/10
Decided: 3/22/11
A-76-09 Town of Kearny v. Discount City of Old Bridge, Inc. (65,070)
Where a municipality proposes to condemn only a tenant’s leasehold interest under the Local
Redevelopment and Housing Law (LRHL), N.J.S.A. 40A:12A-1 to -73, does the tenant have a
right to individual notice of the proposal?
Certification granted 3/4/10
Argued: 9/28/10
Decided: 3/17/11
A-74-09 County of Hudson v. State of New Jersey, Department of Corrections (64,676)
Did the County’s amended complaint against the State seeking reimbursement for providing
prison beds comply with the notice provisions of the Contractual Liability Act, N.J.S.A. 59:13-1 to
-10?
Certification granted 3/4/10
Argued: 9/27/10
Decided: 6/7/11
A-73-09 State v. R.T. (65,327)
Where defendant’s trial strategy rested on the theory that he did not commit the assault but that
the police cajoled him into stating that he was intoxicated, was defendant’s right to a fair trial
prejudiced by the court charging the jury, over his objection, that intoxication could possibly
negate an element of the crime?
Notice of appeal filed 12/29/09
Argued: 1/18/11
Decided: 4/28/11
A-72-09 State v. Damu Alston (65,298)
Did police officers fail to scrupulously honor an equivocal request for counsel thereby requiring
the suppression of defendant’s subsequent confession?
Leave to appeal granted 2/11/10
Argued: 9/13/10
Decided: 1/19/11
A-22-09 State v. T.M. (64,396)
Is the defendant, the live-in boyfriend of the child-victim’s mother, a “person legally charged
with the care and custody” of the child and therefore guilty of first-degree endangering in
violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4b(3)?
Certification granted 9/11/09
Argued:
Decided:
A-69-08 State v. Cecilia X. Chen (63,177)
Where the victim identified the defendant in a photographic array, was defendant entitled to a
pretrial hearing challenging the identification because of the victim’s prior individual efforts to
confirm the identity of her attacker?
Certification granted 1/22/09
Argued: 9/29/09
Decided: 8/24/11
A-14-08 Petition for Review of the Letter Decision of the Committee on Attorney
Advertising, Docket No. 47 2007 (62,134)