Bill Text: NJ A5671 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs Office of the Public Defender to provide representation at parole revocation proceedings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-06-30 - Substituted by S3772 [A5671 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A5671-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 5671

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 26, 2023

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  REGINALD W. ATKINS

District 20 (Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Directs Office of the Public Defender to provide representation at parole revocation proceedings.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning representation by the Office of the Public Defender at parole revocation proceedings and supplementing chapter 158A of Title 2A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    There is hereby established, within the Office of the Public Defender, a unit which shall provide for the legal representation of any person on parole from a correctional institution of this State or otherwise under the parole supervision of this State who is charged with violation of that parole or who is under consideration for revocation of parole.

 

     2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill establishes a unit within the Office of the Public Defender (the OPD) responsible to provide legal representation of any person on parole from a correctional institution of this State or otherwise under the parole supervision of this State who is charged with violation of that parole or who is under consideration for revocation of parole.

     This legislation complies with Recommendation "E" from the March 2023 Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission report which proposed the end of reliance on court-appointed attorneys for parole violation cases and the restoration of that service through the OPD.