Domestic Violence Litigation begins with violations of the N.J. Constitution and United States Constitution. The system needs reform as discussed below. False DV charges undermine the rights of REAL VICTIMS and the falsely accused.
Unfortunately sense courts and states get Federal Funding for issuing DV orders, all you have to do to understand the unjust system that exists is follow the money.
In the end DV law insults womens’ ability to file credible criminal charges for harassment or assault. If a woman has really been victimized the criminal code offers substantial protections, the law should not assume women lack the ability to file criminal charges, move to shelter, or meet a burden of proof in a jury trial. The flaws with the current system in NJ abound.
Among the challenges of exposing crookedness in the adjudication of restraining orders is credibility. Power rules, and the people who’ve been abused typically have none. Their plaints are discounted or dismissed.
Influential and creditworthy commentators have denounced restraining order injustice, including systemic judicial misconduct, and they’ve in fact done it for decades. But they aren’t saying what the politically entitled want to hear, so the odd peep and quibble are easily drowned in the maelstrom.
Below is a journalistic exposé that I can’t simply provide a link to in the blog’s marginal bibliography, because the nearly 20-year-old reportage is only preserved on the Internet by proxy hosts.
The article, “N.J. Judges Told to Ignore Rights in Abuse TROs,” is by Russ Bleemer and was published in the April 24, 1995 edition of the New Jersey Law Journal.
New Jersey attorneys corroborate that the rigid policy it scrutinizes still obtains today…
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New Jersey Family Court Corruption 