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The circumstances of his death generated significant controversy, leading to a series of high-profile resident protests and an investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor. In 2016, the city reached an agreement with the sons of Deloatch in the wrongful death civil suit they filed; the settlement was in the amount of $300,000.
PATERSON — State fiscal monitors have impeded the city's efforts to settle a lawsuit filed by two men who spent 24 years in prison before their murder convictions were overturned by a judge ...
New Jersey became the first state to pass such a moratorium legislatively, rather than by executive order. Although New Jersey reinstated the death penalty in 1982, the state has not executed anyone since 1963. The abolition vote was recommended by a report from the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission. [13]
The law now has been the basis of more than 20,000 class action lawsuits, filed against multiple companies for violating it, the New Jersey Law Journal reported.
John Sheridan, a senior partner in the Morristown law firm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, was a lifelong Republican whose career in New Jersey state government during the 1970s had culminated in his service as Transportation Commissioner in the cabinet of Governor Thomas Kean from 1982 to 1985.
The new settlement information suggests that Bucks County, and PrimeCare Medical, combined have paid out $3.8 million in wrongful death claims at the Doylestown jail in the 11 years ...
The cause of death was hanging, using his boxers, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to observations. The guard reportedly failed to check on Moore for an hour and seven minutes.
The Constitution of New Jersey, Article 1, Paragraph 12, states: "It shall not be cruel and unusual punishment to impose the death penalty on a person convicted of purposely or knowingly causing death or purposely or knowingly causing serious bodily injury resulting in death who committed the homicidal act by his own conduct or who as an accomplice procured the commission of the offense by ...