State v. O'Donnell

Defendant brought a motion to suppress in the Superior Court, Burlington County, which was denied. He sought to exclude all fruits of an allegedly illegal arrest by a Burlington Township police officer acting in Westampton Township on a charge of violating N.J.S.A. 39:4-50. Following that denial he entered a guilty plea to the charge and appeals to this court on the suppression issue. We affirm.

Defendant maintains that N.J.S.A. 40A:14-152 limits the powers of municipal police to arrests “... within the territorial limits of the municipality ...” even in motor vehicle matters, citing the New…