In their first substantive legal response to the case against the South Jersey power broker, Norcross' lawyers described the state's 111-page indictment as 'a crime thriller with no crime.'
In their first substantive legal response to the case against the South Jersey power broker, Norcross' lawyers described the state's 111-page indictment as"a crime thriller with no crime."urged a judge Tuesday to throw out racketeering charges filed against him and five allies earlier this year, deriding state prosecutors’ case as “a crime thriller with no crime.
“The state’s 111-page indictment reads less like a legal document and more like a screenplay for a putative summer blockbuster,” the filing, authored by Norcross lawyers Michael Critchley and Yaakov Roth, read. “Except the script is missing some critical plot lines … This indictment has no business in a court of law. It is both too trite and too generous to call it an indictment in search of a crime.
The 55-page motion to dismiss the case, filed Tuesday in Mercer County Superior Court, is the first substantive legal response from Norcross and his allies since Attorney General Matt Platkin unveiled the 13-count case against them in July. They’ve denied allegations that they conspired to corruptly acquire real estate worth millions along Camden’s waterfront while muscling out rivals and manipulating a 2013 New Jersey tax credit program designed to encourage development in poorer communities to line their own pockets instead.Peter Warshaw, the judge overseeing the case, has given Norcross’ codefendants until next week to present their own arguments for dismissing the case.
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