State v. Negran

A Somerset County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging defendant Jeffery Negran with third-degree eluding. He applied for and was denied admission to pretrial intervention (PTI) by the Somerset County Prosecutor. The issue in this appeal is whether the prosecutor committed an abuse of discretion by basing his denial on defendant’s past driving history. It is clear a past motor vehicle offense is not a criminal event for purposes of PTI evaluation. We recognize, however, that a driving history can have some limited relevance to a PTI application if there is a strong substantive and…