Passaic County Hindering Aprehension Lawyers

Hindering Apprehension is a common offense in New Jersey. A criminal record could cause a lot of problems with your future plans. Our New Jersey criminal defense attorneys have successfully defended many clients charged with offenses such as hindering apprehension. If are are facing a hindering apprehension charge in any court in New Jersey, call the attorneys that will fight to get you the results you want!

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Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution, 2C:29-3

a. A person commits an offense if, with purpose to hinder the detention, apprehension, investigation, prosecution, conviction or punishment of another for an offense... he:

(1) Harbors or conceals the other;

(2) Provides or aids in providing a weapon, money, transportation, disguise or other means of avoiding discovery or apprehension or effecting escape;

(3) Suppresses, by way of concealment or destruction, any evidence of the crime, or tampers with a witness, informant, document or other source of information..., which might aid in the discovery or apprehension of such person or in the lodging of a charge against him;

(4) Warns the other of impending discovery or apprehension...;

(5) Prevents or obstructs, by means of force, intimidation or deception, anyone from performing an act which might aid in the discovery or apprehension of such person...;

(6) Aids such person to protect or expeditiously profit from an advantage derived from such crime; or

(7) Gives false information to a law enforcement officer.

The offense is a crime of the third degree if the conduct which the actor knows has been charged or is liable to be charged against the person aided would constitute a crime of the second degree or greater, unless the actor is a spouse, parent or child of the person aided, in which case the offense is a crime of the fourth degree. The offense is a crime of the fourth degree if such conduct would constitute a crime of the third degree. Otherwise it is a disorderly persons offense.

Our criminal defense lawyers can also represent you if you are facing criminal charges in any municipal court in Passaic County including courts in: Bloomingdale, Clifton, Haledon, Hawthorne, Hewitt, Little Falls, North Haledon, Packanack Lake, Passaic, Paterson, Pines Lake, Newfoundland, Oak Ridge, Pomton Lakes, Preakness, Prospect Park, Ringwood, Totawa, Wanaque, West Milford and Woodland Park

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