Facing a serious resource drain on Judges in the Bergen County Courts, Stuart Rabner, Chief Judge of the New Jersey Supreme Court, has added the following Judges to the bench in Hackensack: Judge Mary F. Thurber – Reassigned to Bergen Civil Division Judge Frances A. McGrogan – Reassigned to Bergen Criminal Division Judge Margaret M. Foti – Reassigned to Bergen Criminal Division Judge Keith A. Bachmann – Reassigned to Bergen Civil Division Judge Jane Gallina Mecca – Assigned

In multiple consolidated criminal cases, the NJ Appellate Division in a published opinion this morning held: After being convicted of a first DWI offense and then being convicted of driving while suspended for that DWI conviction, the statutory sentencing framework of Title 2C requires a mandatory 180-day sentence in jail without parole for these offenses, which cannot be satisfied by service in either a home detention or community service program You can read the Court's op