Basic Facts of the Case: In State v. Burkert, a Union County, NJ corrections officer named William Burkert was convicted of two counts of harassment after making and posting flyers about his fellow corrections officer and coworker, Gerald Halton. The flyers contained modified wedding photos of Halton and his wife and also included vulgar statements about Halton. After Halton saw the flyers, he claimed he feared for his safety and his ability to command authority among the inmates he was in charge of. Halton then left his job as a correction offer.
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New Jersey Expungement Law Changes (Part 2)
Here on the Law Office of Eric M. Mark Blog, we recently published this blog, the first part of a two-part blog series on recent changes to New Jersey’s expungement laws. As discussed in the first part of this blog, expungement laws in New Jersey are some of the strictest in the country.
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Recent New York Times Article Suggests that the Trump Administration is Slowing Down H1-B Visa Approvals
The December 20, 2017 New York Times article “Without New Laws or Walls, Trump Presses the Brake on Legal Immigration” insinuates that the Trump Administration is purposely slowing down the H1-B visa process by drowning potential immigrants in paperwork and red tape.
Due to federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (commonly called “DACA”) is an immigration program that was started during the Obama Administration. On June 15, 2012, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced the creation of the DACA program. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), “The [DACA] program allows certain people who came into the United States as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal. They are also eligible for work authorization.”[1] Since its inception, the DACA program has protected nearly 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants in the U.S.—often referred to as “DREAMers”—from deportation.
Slowing Down H1-B Visa Approvals as Well as Other Forms of Legal Immigration
The December 20, 2017 New York Times article “Without New Laws or Walls, Trump Presses the Brake on Legal Immigration” insinuates that the Trump Administration is purposely slowing down the H1-B visa process by drowning potential immigrants in paperwork and red tape.
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New Jersey’s expungement statute
New Jersey’s expungement statute is contained in N.J.S.A. 2C:52-1, et. seq., defining expungement as: “extraction and isolation of all records on file within any court, detention or correctional facility, law enforcement or criminal justice agency concerning a person’s detection, apprehension, arrest, detention, trial or disposition of an offense within the criminal justice system.”