POLICE MISCONDUCT FOLLOWING MURDER CHALLENGED AFTER FIVE YEARS OF OBSTRUCTION
Released on: February 22, 2008, 4:13 pm
Press Release Author: Arbor Books
Industry: Law
Press Release Summary: POLICE MISCONDUCT FOLLOWING MURDER CHALLENGED AFTER FIVE YEARS OF OBSTRUCTION
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2/17/08
POLICE MISCONDUCT FOLLOWING MURDER CHALLENGED AFTER FIVE YEARS OF OBSTRUCTION
(February 22, 2008, Ocean County, New Jersey) In a criminal case dating back to April, 2003, Morton Schneider, a New Jersey businessman, has finally succeeded in his fight to expose police corruption, perjury and murder in the county of Ocean.
Schneider and his son, Sean, were arrested following a raid on their home in April, 2003, one month after Sean witnessed the murder of his friend, Al Kushinski. In handcuffs at the time of his murder, Kushinski was pushed to his death by a Toms River police officer, who was assisting Lavallette police on an alleged noise complaint.
The official report on the Kushinski death failed to mention the presence of Toms River police at the scene.
Exactly one month later, using an improperly obtained search warrant, the police claimed to discover cocaine and steroids in the Schneider home.
Later that night, police officers, including one who accidentally left his report behind, vandalized the home and stole approximately $25,000 worth of cash and jewelry. No investigation followed.
Schneider and his wife, Barbara, a Toms River Township surgeon, encountered numerous procedural obstacles by the local courts in their quest to expose the collusion between the Ocean County police, prosecutor's office and judges.
On March 3, 2008, Judge Barbara A. Villano, will be sitting on Schneider's motion hearing. The motion states that the police officer who obtained the search warrant committed perjury on her attestation to obtain the warrant. The drugs she claims she saw were not on the evidence sheet nor in police photographs and in fact never existed.
The Schneiders have endured repeated acts of harassment by the police, the judges and the township in their long and costly struggle to bring the truth to light.
On March 3, they will finally have their day in court.
"One young man is dead, and our lives have been turned upside down," Morton Schneider said. "This type of judicial abuse must end."
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