Expungement for Fire Department Candidat
Sep 18, 2009OUTCOME: Criminal Record Erased
EXPUNGEMENT-FIRE DEPARTMENT CANDIDATE-Successful expungement of juvenile and adult record, making him eligible for employment despite prior convictions.
Asbury Park, NJ
Criminal defense Lawyer at Asbury Park, NJ
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense
OUTCOME: Criminal Record Erased
EXPUNGEMENT-FIRE DEPARTMENT CANDIDATE-Successful expungement of juvenile and adult record, making him eligible for employment despite prior convictions.
OUTCOME: Big Drug Bust Results in Reduced Charge
. BERGEN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT-In a sting operation, the defendant is lured into New Jersey from upstate New York to allegedly deliver a drug dealer and his cocaine and marijuana to a confidential pol ... ice informant posing as a buyer at the Paramus Park Mall. The defendant is arrested by awaiting police who claim the defendant had a bag of weed hanging out of his pants pocket. The police then search the car without a warrant and discover a large quantity of marijuana and cocaine hidden in a closed bag in the passenger compartment of the car just vacated by the dealer. Facing certain prison if convicted he hires Mr. Bellizia to defend his case based on the improper search and seizure of the evidence by the police. RESULT: Mr. Bellizia successfully challenges the seizure of the additional evidence in the closed bag. His client pleads to a reduced charge of possession of the small amount of marijuana found on his person and receives a probationary, non-custodial sentence.