New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1/23/2002

Freeman v. State

Citations

788 A.2d 867
347 N.J. Super. 11

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holding in § 1983 case that equitable tolling did not apply because “Plaintiffs were aware of their injury and the principal actors involved at the time of the [traffic] stop”
permitting equitable tolling “where plaintiff has timely asserted his rights mistakenly by either defective pleading or in the wrong forum”
rejecting argument that plaintiffs were prevented from filing action due to incarceration where they failed to “offer any explanation as to how or who prevented them from exercising their right to file suit”
\Equitable tolling . . . does not excuse claimants from exercising the reasonable insight and diligence required to pursue their claims.\
“[although later suppressed, the evidence of illegally possessed contraband establishes that probable cause existed at the time the criminal prosecution proceeded,” thus defeating the plaintiffs claims predicated on false imprisonment or arrest

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Judges: Judges Stern, Collester and Lintner

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