State v. Camillo

The opinion of the court was delivered by

WINKELSTEIN, J.A.D.

In this appeal, the question presented is whether defendant’s refusal to provide his name, date of birth, and social security number to a state trooper who required the information to prepare an incident report constituted an obstruction of the administration of law pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:29-1a. We conclude that under the facts of this case it did not, and consequently we reverse defendant’s March 24,2004 conviction of that offense.

We take the material facts from the March 24, 2004 municipal court trial in Southampton Township. On…