The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) may suspend your driver’s license for reckless driving or other circumstances manifesting a lack of reasonable care in operating a motor vehicle. An accident resulting in an assault by auto conviction is, by definition, an act of reckless driving. Accordingly, you can expect…
The offense of assault by auto or vessel is a crime of the third degree if you purposely drive a vehicle in an aggressive manner directed at another vehicle and serious bodily injury results. Assault by auto is a crime of the fourth degree if you purposely drive a vehicle…
Yes. In New Jersey, you may expunge a conviction for assault by auto. Eligibility questions concerning expunging a criminal record can be answered easily in most cases by our attorneys. In this regard, New Jersey law imposes relatively clear eligibility requirements which limit the grounds under which someone can expunge…
Pretrial Intervention, also know as PTI, is a diversionary program that allows a first-time offender to avoid a criminal conviction and associated penalties. Criminal offenses falling within the grade of a third degree crime or fourth degree crime are eligible for this program. The typical term of the program is…
A person may be found guilty of assault by auto or boat when that person causes either serious bodily injury or bodily injury to another by driving recklessly or purposely. To be convicted of assault by auto, the State may only have to prove that you drove a vehicle or…
