IN RE CIVIL COMMITMENT OF J.G.


730 A.2d 922 (1999)

322 N.J. Super. 309

In the Matter of the CIVIL COMMITMENT OF J.G.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided June 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Bakley-Marino, Assistant Prosecutor, for appellant, State of New Jersey, Cape May County (Stephen D. Moore, Cape May County Prosecutor, attorney; Ms. Bakley-Marino, of counsel and on the brief).

Lorraine A. Gormley, Deputy Public Defender, for respondent J.G. (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney; Ms. Gormley, on the brief).

Maria Desautelle, Deputy Attorney General, on behalf of the Attorney General (Peter Verniero, Attorney General, attorney; Joseph L. Yannotti, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Lisa Ciaston and Ms. Desautelle, Deputy Attorneys General, on the brief).

Before Judges MUIR, Jr., KEEFE and EICHEN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by EICHEN, J.A.D.

This appeal involves interpretation of the Megan's Law1 amendments, L. 1994, c. 1342 (the Megan's Law amendments) to the civil commitment statute, N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.1 to -27.23 (the civil commitment statute). On August 26, 1998, a Law Division judge vacated another Law Division judge's order that had temporarily committed J.G. to the...

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