Eric J Marcy

Eric Marcy is Of Counsel with the Somerville and Morristown based Law Firm of Lyons & Associates, P.C. He has  a wide variety of experience in criminal, civil, and administrative litigation.  He has been a licensed New Jersey attorney since December of 1982.

Mr. Marcy's undergraduate dual majors were psychology and philosophy.  Prior to joining the Law Firm of Lyons & Associates, P.C., he was a Shareholder with the Wilentz Firm in Woodbridge, and prior to that, Mr. Marcy served the State of New Jersey as a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, Department of Law and Public Safety, Office of the Attorney General in the Appellate and Trial sections (1982-1985).

He was appointed by the Middlesex County Freeholders to serve as a member of the Middlesex County Mental Health Board (1989-1993).  He was appointed by the Morris County Freeholders as a member of the Morris County Mental Health Board (1994-1997) and was elected chairperson (1996-1997).  In his capacity as a member of the Middlesex and Morris County Mental Health Boards, he reviewed requests and made recommendations for allocations of county and state funding for community mental health services.  He was appointed by Governor James E. McGreevey to the Board of Trustees for the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in 2004, elected vice-chair for 2004 – 2005 and annually re-elected chair for the years 2005-2017.  He was re-appointed to the Greystone Board of Trustees by Governor Richard J. Codey in 2006, Governor Jon Corzine in 2008, and Governor Chris Christie in 2014.

Mr. Marcy has been a member of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers since 1987.  He served as a Trustee of the NJ-ACDL from 2001 to 2010.  He also served on the legislative committee and involved in creating Association’s website. ().

Mr. Marcy was a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Class Actions Committee, in 2010-2014.

Mr. Marcy has practiced in the following areas: 

All aspects of State and Federal Criminal Defense Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, Civil and Criminal Commercial Fraud Litigation, Medicaid Fraud, Securities Fraud, Criminal Tax Litigation, Corporate Investigations, Subpoena Compliance, Civil Litigation related to Criminal Litigation, Civil Rights Litigation arising from allegations of law enforcement misconduct, Administrative Litigation relating to disciplinary proceedings involving Federal, State, and Municipal law enforcement officers and government employees, Administrative Litigation involving the professional licensing of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, hearing aid dispensers, Public Employee Pension Forfeiture, Class Action Litigation, Consumer Fraud Litigation, Construction Litigation,Parole Planning, Appeals from the Denial of Parole, and Parole Revocation.

Mr. Marcy has represented Municipal, State, and Federal Law enforcement officers.  He is an approved attorney under under the New Jersey PBA Legal Protection Plan.

Mr. Marcy has been selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers lists 2006-2009, and 2017-2022. 

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Parole Cases:

New Jersey State Parole Board v. Cestari, 224 N.J.Super. 534 (App. Div. 1988), certif. den. 224 N.J.Super. 534 (1988).  As a result of the success in this parole case (directing immediate release) an unusual and unlikely specialty in Parole law resulted in further successful litigation of parole denials:

K.P. v. New Jersety State Parole Board, 2002 WL 34452345, A-1470-01T5 (App. Div. 2002)(reversal and remand of parole denial);

D.K. v. New Jersey State Parole Board, 2008 WL 4661401 (App. Div. 2008); and 2007 WL 642589 (App. Div. 2007)(reversal and remand of parole denial);

M.M v. New Jersey State Parole Board, 2010 WL 3184377, A-1761-08T3 (App. Div. 2010)(reversal and remand of parole denial);

T.B. v. New Jersey Sate Parole Bd., 2014 WL 147721, A-3127-11T2, (App. Div. Jan. 16, 2014)(reversal and remand of parole denial);

R.G. v. New Jersey State Parole Board, 2014 WL 5365682, A-5435-12T3 (App. Div. Oct. 23, 2014)(reversal and remand of parole denial);

W.T v. New Jersey State Parole Bd., 2015 WL 4602545 (App. Div., August 3, 2015)(reversal and remand of  parole denial);

E.B. v. New Jersey State Parole Bd.,  2017 WL 4818714 (App. Div., October 26, 2017);

M.K.O. v. NJ Dept. of Corrections, 2020 WL 260903, A-5598-17T3 (App. Div. January 17, 2020)(reversing imposition of Classification E-1 Override by the Department of Corrections);