9:00am - UPDATE IN THE MATTER OF STATE OF NEW JERSEY vs. JENNIFER COOMBS
Yesterday afternoon, 7/21/23, the Jury concluded its deliberations with a verdict of NOT GUILTY on the sole count of the indictment that charged Coombs with the crime of Stalking a Detective of the Asbury Park Police Department, Robert Champouillon, after he purchased a house directly across the street from where Coombs resided.
Paul C. Williams, a friend to the page and contributor, volunteered his time and services to video-record and photograph the entire trial and also remained in Freehold to pickup Coombs once she was released from jail and then drove her to a friend's house.
7/21/23 UPDATE IN THE MATTER OF STATE OF NEW JERSEY vs. JENNIFER COOMBS
Yesterday, 7/20/23, both the defense and the state presented their respective closing arguments to the jury. The Court then gave the case to the jury and they began their deliberations.
During deliberations, the jury sent a note to the Judge; requesting to rehear the testimony of Robert Champouillon and a retired Captain from the Neptune City Police Department.
Jury deliberations resume first thing this morning.
7:30am - UPDATE IN THE MATTER OF STATE OF NEW JERSEY vs. JENNIFER COOMBS
Yesterday, 7/19/23, the defense began and rested; calling upon Jennifer Coombs to testify in her own behalf. In support of her defense, she provided the jury with a perspective into who she is, what she does, and also contradicted much of the version of events testified to by the alleged Stalking victim, Robert Champouillon, who is also an officer and detective with the Asbury Park police department.
The jury is expected to be charged first thing this morning and then begin deliberations.
8:00pm - UPDATE IN THE MATTER OF STATE OF NEW JERSEY vs. JENNIFER COOMBS
Yesterday, 7/18/23, the State began and rested its case; calling three witnesses and that included the alleged Stalking victim, Robert Champouillon, who is also an officer and detective with the Asbury Park Police Department.
According to Champouillon, Jennifer Coombs, a 51 year old woman who has been involved with law enforcement officers and agencies for many years and in various capacities, suddenly and inexplicably engaged in an unprecedented course of conduct toward him, a LEO who stands approximately 6' and carries a firearm, and that her alleged conduct caused him to literally FEAR for his safety and the safety of a third party and suffer emotional distress ... he claims. The conduct was, as he had recently bought a house directly across the street from where she lived, her attempting to talk with him in July of 2019, yelling something about police at him as she drove by in August of 2019, driving slowly as he walked his dog, yelled f**k you, and flipped her middle finger at him in September of 2020, and installing surveillance cameras on her residence, pointed at his residence, and said out-loud "now we can watch them all the time" also in September of 2020. He also added that her conduct also included pulling into his driveway to turn around.
Just can't make this stuff up ...
UPDATE IN THE MATTER OF STATE OF NEW JERSEY vs. JENNIFER COOMBS
Prior to the jury being sworn in yesterday, 7/18/23, there was an evidentiary hearing to determine the admissibility of certain testimony/evidence that the defense wanted to present to the jury. Specifically, the defense wanted to present testimony and body worn camera evidence by David Barry, an officer with the Avon By The Sea police department, who responded to call initiated by the alleged victim, Robert Champouillon, in January of 2022. As he has alleged in this case, Champouillon reported that, while he was walking his dog, Coombs was following him. However, Coombs has a dash camera that recorded and, while she was already in the area to see Barry, Barry reviewed her footage and confirmed that she had not been following Champollion.
Ultimately and for several reasons, the Court, the Honorable Henry P. Buttehorn presiding, ruled the testimony and evidence inadmissible.
5/19/23 Jennifer Coombs Status Conference
UPDATE on the matter of State of NJ vs Jennifer Coombs
"I'm innocent and I'm willing to take this to trial to clear my name." Jennifer Coombs 5/19/23
Friend and contributor to Corruption Watch of NJ, Paul C. Williams, was at the Monmouth County Superior Court again, for another status conference in the matter of State of New Jersey vs Jen Coombs, on May 19, 2023.
Coombs is a self-styled citizen journalist and advocate for the first amendment and disability awareness who, for many years, has maintained channels on YouTube where she uploads videos of her recording taxpayer funded buildings and employees as an exercise of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. As one may imagine, many public employees, including law enforcement officers, do not take kindly at all to her exercise.
This case arose several years ago and following an Asbury Park Police officer, ROBERT CHAMPOUILLON, buying a house in Neptune City ... across the street from JENNIFER COOMBS who was then residing at 16 Evergreen Ave, Neptune NJ. Champouillon, over the course of a year, made four reports to the Neptune City police about Coombs; complaining that she was in her car, parked across the street from her residence and in front of his residence, and basically only said hello to him; that she drove around the block where she also resided; that she drove by him, as he was walking his dog, and proceeded to roll her window down, give him the middle finger, and yelled "f**k you" at him; and that, after he also claimed that she went onto his driveway, she installed surveillance cameras on her house and pointed them at his house. Based on those four reports, Neptune City police and with the support of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, charged Coombs with Stalking. She was arrested, processed, and released with the condition that she have no contact with the purported victim.
While that case was pending and being approximately two years later, she happen to encounter Champouil
Friend and occasional contributor to Corruption Watch of NJ was at the Monmouth County Superior Court of New Jersey again this morning, for another status conference in the matter of State of New Jersey vs Jennifer Coombs.
This morning, the State offered to allow Coombs to be released from jail today IF she pleads guilty today to one of the charges where she is accused of "Stalking" (N.J.S.A. 2C:12-10) an Asbury Park patrolman Robert Champouillon. In other words, the State is essentially conceding that it has been and continues to be holding Coombs hostage, at an exorbitant expense to taxpayers, and the ransom demand is her guilty plea to something she not only has adamantly denied being guilty of but also the evidence does not provide a legal basis for.
Apparently, she should not have ever been jailed and has been jailed only because she had not been afforded the constitutional right to adequate, effective, and meaningful assistance of counsel in response to the State's motion for her to be remanded to jail pending trial. Her previous attorney, a family law attorney named George Mardinly and appointed by the Public Defender's office, utterly failed/refused to present any evidence and otherwise defend Coombs. There was simply no probable cause to support the charges.
Under NJ law, Stalking is engaging in a course of conduct that would cause a reasonable person to fear ... Without going deep into the rabbit hole of the evidence, the first incident that is purported to be part of the "course of conduct" is Coombs sitting in her car across the street from her own residence in Neptune City (in front of the home Champouillon had recently bought) and attempting to engage him in conversation when he was outside. He said that he ignored her and went into his house ... and then he proceeded to call the Neptune City police about her simply attempting to talk with him. Any doubt!? Inbox me and I can send you the police report. Let it suffice to say that, indivi
Reporter Jim Murdoch News 12 New Jersey coverage of the walkout earlier today in protest of the schools response, or lack thereof, to bullying. This follows the tragic suicide death of 14 year old student of Central Regional High School after being jumped by several other students.
Edited two of the videos released by the Memphis Police Department regarding Tyre Nichols; creating a simultaneous run of footage from one of the body cameras with footage from the street light pole.
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Jackson woman settles police excessive force lawsuit for $437,500
Kathleen Hopkins
Asbury Park Press
JACKSON - A township woman whose doorbell camera captured police tackling, punching and dragging her across the floor in her own home in response to a noise complaint has settled a lawsuit against the township for $437,500.
Adriana Meza accepted the payment in exchange for dropping excessive force and other claims against the township and its officers in a 2018 lawsuit that the township’s attorney described in court papers as “frivolous, groundless and without merit."
Meza and township officials agreed that neither they or their attorneys would discuss the settlement with the news media or others.
The Asbury Park Press, however, obtained the settlement agreement, signed on Dec. 10, 2021, through an Open Public Records Act request made to PERMA Risk Management Services, the administrator of municipal joint insurance funds that provide insurance coverage to the township.
Bradford Stokes, vice president of PERMA, said in an email it did not appear the township had to contribute toward the settlement. The Ocean County Joint Insurance Fund paid $300,000 of the settlement, while the township’s excess insurance carrier, the Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund, paid the remainder, Stokes said.
Meza, 45, agreed that the payment did not constitute an admission of liability or acknowledgment of fault by the township.
The settlement came almost six months after Meza’s lawsuit largely survived a motion for summary judgment filed by attorneys for the township.
In motions for summary judgment, parties to a legal action ask a judge to rule in their favor without a trial.
Ruling on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment in June, U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti sided with the defendants on some of Meza’s claims,
This video was originally published in 2018 but worthy of being reposted; particularly in light of assaults occurring at New Jersey's prison for women.
While many NJ legislators having been deflecting attention from themselves by calling for the proverbial head of the Commissioner of the NJ Department of Corrections, one formerly incarcerated person who is also a thorough legal researcher has been pushing back on that and urging consideration of the system that insulates corrections officers from accountability by upper management such as Commissioner Hicks. NJ Corrections Officers are legally very much like every other law enforcement officer and there is a parallel to be recognized between this video and the reality of the abusive culture within the entire NJ Dept of Corrections.
When the police cross the line, powerful protections often spring to their defense. But why? DeRay McKesson examines how bad cops frequently elude punishment—and what we can do to correct that.
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