William H. Buckman Law Firm

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 New Jersey so often pats itself on the back as a “progressive” state. It’s not, particularly in the area of criminal justice issues, especially drug related issues. On drug policy, New Jersey leads the way in draconian sentencing schemes and obsolete thinking. Somehow the weight of this system is also placed [...]

  Thursday, June 13th, 2011 There are currently close to two million American citizens behind bars. This number is unsettling, even under the assumption that the entire two million are truly guilty of the crimes for which they have been convicted and incarcerated. But what if there was one of them, just one, who was [...]

Wednesday, march 2nd, 2011 I have practiced criminal law for over 30 years. I am still mystified as to why people under investigation speak to police. To try to help my clients I have placed on the back of my card the following: My lawyer has told me not to talk to anyone about my case, [...]

The Champion Magazine | September/October 1999 By William H. Buckman & John Lamberth Jim Crow is alive on America’s highways, trains and in its airports. Minorities are suspect when they appear in public, especially when they exercise the most basic and fundamental freedom of travel.1 In an uncanny likeness to the supposedly dead Jim Crow [...]

Student Approached Coulter During Book Signing The Signal | February 25th, 2009 By Allison Singer The arrest of a politically active student on campus has prompted accusations of “aggression and unprofessionalism” shown by police. Mike Tracey, vice president of the College Democrats and junior political science major, was arrested on Feb. 18 after Ann Coulter’s lecture [...]

By JOHN SULLIVAN MICHAEL STRING tossed the last crate into his pickup, turned on the headlights and started across the parking lot outside Sandy’s Market. It was after midnight in the small Pinelands town of Tabernacle, and few other cars were in sight. Just then, a man with a close-cropped haircut and ramrod posture stepped [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer | March 4, 2009 By Jan Hefler  More than 120 New Jersey State Police troopers filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to have the agency’s mandatory retirement policy overturned. The troopers, saying they are fit and want to stay in law enforcement, contend the requirement that they retire by age 55 is discriminatory [...]

The New York Times | June 30, 2002 By STEVE STRUNSKY  Before the turnpike shooting of 1998 brought the issue of racial profiling to national attention, there was State v. Soto. By now, the particulars of the April 1998 shooting on the New Jersey Turnpike are well known: three unarmed youths, two black and one [...]

By Jan Hefler The roots of William Buckman’s distrust of police can be traced to 1971, when he was arrested in Washington with hundreds of other college students while protesting the presence of U.S. troops in Cambodia. Buckman, a Northeast Philadelphia native who was studying sociology at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, remembers standing [...]