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Trenton NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today released new guidance addressing the scope and appropriate use of prosecutorial discretion in municipal court prosecutions of marijuana-related offenses. The guidance reaffirms that municipal prosecutors are not permitted to adopt their own policies to decriminalize marijuana. Instead, prosecutors handling marijuana cases may appropriately exercise prosecutorial iscretion on a case-by-case basis, as they would when prosecuting any other type of criminal offense.
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