CLARKE v. TOWNSHIP OF MOUNT LAUREL


815 A.2d 502 (2003)

357 N.J. Super. 362

Lonnie I. CLARKE, Sr., Plaintiff/Appellant, v. TOWNSHIP OF MOUNT LAUREL, Officer Timothy Connors, Officer Arthur Dorst, Officer Michael Stone, Officer Frank Kanicki, Mount Laurel Township Chief of Police David Haas, Defendants/Respondents. Lonnie I. Clarke, III & Mary Jane Clarke, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. Township of Mount Laurel, Officer Timothy Connors, Officer Arthur Dorst, Officer Michael Stone, Officer Frank Kanicki, Mount Laurel Township Chief of Police David Haas, Defendants/Respondents. Lonnie I. Clarke, III, Administrator Ad Prosequendum of The Estate of Lonnie Clarke, IV, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. Township of Mount Laurel, Officer Timothy Connors, Officer Arthur Dorst, Officer Michael Stone, Officer Frank Kanicki, Mount Laurel Township Chief of Police David Haas, Defendants/Respondents.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary D. Ginsberg, Mount Laurel, for appellants (Adam M. Raditz, Morganville, on the brief).

Frank N. Yurasko, Somerville, for respondents.

Before Judges PRESSLER, WALLACE, JR. and CIANCIA.


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

Decedent was fatally shot by the police after he brandished a weapon inside his parents' home. Plaintiffs filed these wrongful death actions against individual police officers and the Township of Mount Laurel. The separate complaints were consolidated pursuant to an order dated April 19, 1999. Defendants sought summary judgment, relying on good faith immunity in the enforcement of any law under N.J...

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