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Criminal Defense |
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Disorderly Conduct
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Disorderly Conduct is a common offense and the basis of the charge results from various circumstances such as causing a public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or engaging in reckless, threatening or violent behavior.
Villani & DeLuca frequently represents individuals facing allegations of disorderly conduct in municipalities within Monmouth or Ocean County, New Jersey. Based in the shore community of Point Pleasant Beach, the firm has a team of attorneys, including a former municipal prosecutor with over 17 years of experience, representing those charged with disorderly conduct and related offenses.
For NJ Law regarding Disorderly Conduct, choose from the following:
- Disorderly Conduct 2C:33-2
2C:33-2. Disorderly conduct
a. Improper behavior. A person is guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense, if with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof he
(1) Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; or
(2) Creates a hazardous or physically dangerous condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
b. Offensive language. A person is guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense if, in a public place, and with purpose to offend the sensibilities of a hearer or in reckless disregard of the probability of so doing, he addresses unreasonably loud and offensively coarse or abusive language, given the circumstances of the person present and the setting of the utterance, to any person present.
"Public" means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access; among the places included are highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, or any neighborhood
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If you or a family member have been charged or are in being investigated for a Disorderly Conduct offense, contact partner Carmine R. Villani, Esq. of Villani and Deluca at 732.892.9050 for a free initial consultation.
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