Kenneth Vercammen is a Middlesex County Trial Attorney who has published 130 articles in national and New Jersey publications on Criminal Law, Probate, Estate and litigation topics.

He was awarded the NJ State State Bar Municipal Court Practitioner of the Year.

He lectures and handles criminal cases, Municipal Court, DWI, traffic and other litigation matters.

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Kenneth Vercammen & Associates, P.C,

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Court would not permit attack on old guilty plea based on adequacy of factual basis for 2001 guilty plea.

Court would not permit attack on old guilty plea based on adequacy of factual basis for 2001 guilty plea. State v. Mitchell 373 NJ Super. ___ (App. Div. 2005). Where a 2001 judgment of conviction included suspension of imposition of sentence, and where in 2003 the court granted a petition to revoke the suspended sentence and imposed a prison term on defendant for the crime to which he had entered his guilty plea in 2001, neither the adequacy of the factual basis set forth on the record in 2001 nor the asserted mental status of defendant at the time of the plea in 2001 could be raised as a basis to attack the imposition of the sentence in 2003.

Court Would Not Permit Attack on Old Guilty Plea Based on Adequacy of Factual Basis for 2001 Guilty Plea 
State v. Mitchell 373 NJ Super. ___ 
(App. Div. 2005).


Where a 2001 judgment of conviction included suspension of imposition of sentence, and where in 2003 the court granted a petition to revoke the suspended sentence and imposed a prison term on defendant for the crime to which he had entered his guilty plea in 2001, neither the adequacy of the factual basis set forth on the record in 2001 nor the asserted mental status of defendant at the time of the plea in 2001 could be raised as a basis to attack the imposition of the sentence in 2003.


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