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G. Capital Punishment .................................................................................................................... 273

H. Megan’s Law ................................................................................................................................ 274

I. Plea Bargaining ............................................................................................................................ 274

EXPUNGEMENT...................................................................................................................................... 275

I. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND OVERVIEW .................................................................................. 275

II. RECORDS WHICH CAN NOT BE EXPUNGED ........................................................................ 276

A. Records Maintained by Non Criminal Justice Agencies ............................................................. 276

B. Domestic Violence & Family Court Records .............................................................................. 276

C. Motor Vehicle Offenses ............................................................................................................... 276

D. Records Subject to Pending Civil or Criminal Litigation .......................................................... 276

III. APPLICATION FOR EXPUNGEMENT ....................................................................................... 277

A. Who Can File to Expunge a Record? ........................................................................................... 277

B. Where is a Petition to Expunge Filed? ......................................................................................... 277

C. How is the application filed? ....................................................................................................... 277

IV. OBJECTIONS TO EXPUNGEMENT ........................................................................................... 277

A. In General .................................................................................................................................... 277

B. Types Of Objections .................................................................................................................... 277

1. Failure of a Petitioner to fulfill any of the statutory prerequisites ........................................ 277


2. Criminal convictions ............................................................................................................. 278


3. Disorderly or petty disorderly persons convictions ............................................................... 279


4. Juvenile Adjudications ........................................................................................................... 280


5. Youthful Drug Offender Convictions & Dispositions .......................................................... 280


6. Non-conviction dispositions of arrests .................................................................................. 280


7. The need for the continued availability of the records outweighs the desirability of
   freeing the petitioner from any disabilities, N.J.S.A. 2C:52-14b. ...................................... 280


8. Non-conviction disposition from a Plea bargain ................................................................... 280


9. Prior criminal conviction expunged, N.J.S.A. 2C:52-14e .................................................... 280


10. Participation in a PTI or other supervisory treatment program, N.J.S.A. 2C:52-14f ........ 281

EXTRADITION......................................................................................................................................... 281

I. NATURE & SOURCE OF PROCEEDINGS (See also, INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON

DETAINERS, this Digest) .............................................................................................................. 281

II. BAIL ................................................................................................................................................... 282

III. SENTENCING AND INCARCERATION .................................................................................... 282

IV. JUVENILES ...................................................................................................................................... 283

V. RELEASE OF THE ACCUSED ........................................................................................................ 283

FIRST AMENDMENT.............................................................................................................................. 284

I. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ............................................................................................................. 284

A. General Basis ................................................................................................................................ 284

1. U.S. Supreme Court Cases .................................................................................................... 284


2. New Jersey Supreme Court cases .......................................................................................... 285