State v. Brooks

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

VERNIERO, J.

The issue in this case is whether Union County’s prosecutor abused his discretion by denying defendant entry into that county’s pretrial intervention (PTI) program based in part on defendant’s juvenile and adult arrest records. We affirm the judgment of the Appellate Division upholding the prosecutor’s determination. We emphasize, however, that courts, prosecutors, and PTI program directors may draw only limited inferences from juvenile or adult criminal ■ histories that contain dismissed offenses. We further observe that some juvenile…