Roadside strip search by NJ state trooper in NJ draws protest and legal action

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4. I practice criminal law and appear often in this court. Rural area without local police Dept s

State Police Patrol and are notorious for stopping young drivers using bogus traffic violations as a pretext for the stop. These Troopers are fishing for dui and marijuana arrests even though NJ is clearly on the road of legal recreational pot usuage. What sucks is if I were to take the case to trial for just the traffic violation my client would have no shot of winning. A municipal court judge who is appointed by town council according to political affiliation and donations. Were the judge to find the kid not guilty it would in effect be calling the cop a liar and the judge wouldn’t get reappointed. And NJ has over 500 of these townships and Boros most with their own police departments and town governments. That means pensions and sweetheart deals for all those township employees. And the judge is part time but has about 10 other courts and can aggregate them for his pension. So he makes about $250,000 a year from all the courts.