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New Jersey's Strict Liability Drug Induced Death Law

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Court: Pair Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death Court: Pair Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death
Court: Pair Who Bought Heroin In Paterson Not Liable For User's OD Death A New York couple who sold a 25-year-old overdose victim the heroin from Paterson that killed him can't be prosecuted for causing a drug-induced death in New Jersey, a state appeals court ruled. Because Kean Cabral received and used the drug in Warwick in Orange County, authorities in New Jersey don't have jurisdiction to prosecute Anthony Potts and Noel Ferguson, who bought it from a dealer in Paterson, the Appellate Division judges found. "The state has not met its burden of establishing that an 'inference could reasonably be drawn placing the site of the crime within th[is] state',&…

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by Jerry DeMarco