STATE v. ISHAQUE


711 A.2d 416 (1997)

312 N.J. Super. 207

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff, v. Abdul Razzak ISHAQUE, Defendant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Union County.

Decided December 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin Crawford Orr, for plaintiff.

Amilkar Velez-Lopez, Newark, for defendant.


BEGLIN, A.J.S.C.

This case is one of first impression in New Jersey. It raises the question of when a court has jurisdiction over the offense of bigamy.

Accepting the facts as alleged by the complainant, it appears that Abdul Razzak Ishaque, the defendant, married Evelin Mendez in a civil ceremony in Elizabeth on February 9, 1993, and cohabited thereafter with his wife at their residence in the city. Some three years later he traveled to Pakistan, where on...

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