William H. Buckman Law Firm

Monday, September 21st, 2009 “Consent “is a threadbare fiction which should be eliminated from highway or pedestrian searches. No traveler with a choice wants to be detained for the minutes or hours that searches consume. No one wants the humiliation and spectacle that attaches to the process while he or she sits on the hood [...]

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, [...]

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Another example of the advice that one should not speak to police is particularly apt for people who may be suspected of growing marijuana. Euphemistically, here in NJ, police call one of their particular marijuana related operations a “knock and Talk.” The operation is anything but. When police suspect that marijuana [...]

South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog | July 13, 2008 I went to the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Blues, Bar-B-Q and Bar CLE in Greenwood, S.C. last Friday, and had a good time. One way I’ve found to stay excited about criminal defense and to stay current on what everyone else is doing [...]

The New York Times | October 2, 2007 By Richard G. Jones NEWARK, Oct. 1 — Officials with the New Jersey attorney general’s office said on Monday that the state had agreed to a $400,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a former state trooper who said that he was beaten and harassed by members of a secret [...]

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 [...]