CV:  Mitchell E. Ignatoff, Esq.

PRACTICE AREAS

PRACTICE AREAS Criminal Defense including Murder, Drug, Sex Crimes, White Collar, Juvenile Waiver; Municipal Court including Traffic Offenses, DWI; Criminal Appeals, Civil Rights-§1983, Public School Law, Defamation/Fair Credit Reporting

• Criminal Defense

  • Murder

  • Drug Arrests

  • Sex Crimes

  • Theft, Criminal Fraud

  • Juvenile Crimes

• Municipal Court

  • Traffic Offenses
     

  • DWI / DUI  Driving Under the Influence
     

• Civil Rights

  • §1983

  • Public School Law

  • Defamation/Fair Credit Reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 60+criminal jury trials in state and federal courts as well as appeals in the state and federal courts (1986 to present)

• Member, Federal Criminal Justice Act Panel, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Cir. (2003-present)

• Member, Federal Criminal Justice Act Panel, E.D.PA (1998-2001)

• Municipal Prosecutor, City of Plainfield (2001-2005)

• Public Defender, Hillsborough Township (2000-2002)

• Public Defender, Raritan Borough (2000)

• Public Defender, Franklin Township (1996-1998)

• Public Defender, Millstone Borough (1998)

• Counsel to the Somerset County Regular Democratic Organization (1996 to 1999)

• Attorney, Veterans Administration (1979 to 1986)

• New Jersey Super Lawyer, General Criminal Defense, New Jersey Monthly and Law and Politics Magazines, 2005

CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified in 1996 by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Criminal Trial Attorney
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  Re-certified 2004, 2009

REPORTED CASES

• State v. Rivera, 175 N.J. 612 (2003)

• U.S. v. Akande, 200 F. 3d 136 (3rd Cir, 1999)

• Moore v. Moore, 114 N.J. 147 (1989)

• State v. Wormley, 305 N.J. Super. 57 (App. Div, 1997)

• State in the Int. of C.S., 245 N.J. Super. 46 (App.Div., 1990)

• Poole v. Janeski, 159 N.J. Super. 83 (Law Div., 1992)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• New Jersey (1978)

• New York (1979)

• Pennsylvania (2000)

• United States District Court, District of New Jersey (1979)

• Southern District of New York (1985)

• Eastern District of New York (1985)

• Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2000)

• United States Court of Appeals - Third Circuit (1991)

• United States Court of Appeals - Second Circuit (1997)

• United States Supreme Court (2009)

LAW SCHOOL

• J.D., University of Tulsa College of Law 1978

• LL.M. Trial Advocacy, Temple University School of Law, 1999
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COLLEGE

• B.A., Psychology, Colorado College, 1974

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice, Kean College (1990)

SEMINARS

• Lab Certifications & the Latest on Crawford v. Washington: Must the State Produce the Technician? Middlesex County Bar Assn. January 14, 2009.

• Skills and Methods - New Jersey Criminal Trial Preparation, N.J. Institute for Continuing Legal Education - March 24, 1999, March 22, 2001, March 21, 2002, May 29, 2003, April 8, 2004, April 7, 2005, and April 6, 2006, April 7, 2007, April 3, 2008.

• Strategies in Handling New Jersey DWI Cases, Lorman Education Services, at New Providence, NJ - October 2, 1998

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

• Democratic Candidate for State Senate-District 16 (1997)

• Democratic Candidate for State Assembly-District 16 (1995)

PUBLICATIONS

• Statements Prepared in Anticipation of Litigation are Barred by the Confrontation Clause, The Middlesex Advocate, January 2009
• An Expensive But Necessary Extension of the Confrontation Clause, New Jersey Law Journal, December 1, 2008
• DWI Machine is Unconstitutional, The Record, January 10, 2008
• N.J. Due for Overhaul of DWI Prosecutions, New Jersey Law Journal, November 12, 2007
• Two Sided Standard in DWI Cases, New Jersey Law Journal, July 2, 2007
• Way Off the Mark in Denying PTI to Undocumented Aliens, New Jersey Law Journal, February 5, 2007
• Tale of Two Standards in DWI Cases, New Jersey Law Journal, January 1, 2007
• Crawford and New Jersey: Perfect Together? New Jersey Lawyer, September 18, 2006
• Federal Criminal Practice, Union County Bar Association Journal 1992
• Parent-Child Tort Immunity in Oklahoma: Some Considerations for Abandoning the Total Immunity Shield, 12 Tulsa Law Journal 545 (1978)
  
  

 

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