Barry T. Albin (born July 7, 1952) is an American lawyer and former judge from

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. He served as an

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of the

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from 2002 to 2022. A

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, Albin is noted for his jurisprudence in New Jersey's criminal law, in which his opinions would frequently favor the due-process rights of criminal defendants. He stepped down from the court on July 6, 2022, a day prior to turning 70, New Jersey's mandatory retirement age for judges. The final opinion he wrote involved how municipalities may fill vacated seats.

Biography

Albin was born on July 7, 1952, in

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, to Gerald, a pressman for

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, and Norma Albin. He grew up in

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, New York, and

Sayreville, New Jersey Sayreville is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. Sayreville is within the heart of the Raritan Valley region, located on the south banks of the Raritan River, and also located on the Raritan Bay. As of the 2010 United St ...

, where he graduated from

Sayreville War Memorial High School Sayreville War Memorial High School (SWMHS) is a four-year state school, public Secondary education in the United States, high school located in the Parlin, New Jersey, Parlin section of Sayreville, New Jersey, Sayreville, in Middlesex County, N ...

in 1970. He graduated from

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in 1973 and Cornell Law School in 1976. After graduation, he started a career as a Deputy Attorney General in the Appellate Section of the

Division of Criminal Justice. After this career, he became Assistant

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and

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counties, which he held from 1978 to 1982. He then joined the firm of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A., becoming partner in 1986. Albin served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Criminal Practice Committee from 1987 until 1992, and gained the honor of being selected by peers to have his name included in the "Best Lawyers in America" (2000–2001). He became the president of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a position he held from 1999–2000. Albin was nominated by Governor

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on July 10, 2002, as a justice in the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was confirmed on September 12 of the same year and was sworn in on September 18, 2002. On May 15, 2009, Governor

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renominated Albin, whose initial seven-year term would have expired on September 18, 2009. Albin's re-appointment was cleared by the Senate on June 26, 2009. Following his mandatory retirement from the court, Albin became a partner at

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, joining the litigation department and chairing the firm’s appellate practice group. Barry Albin and his wife, Inna Albin, have two sons, Gerald and Daniel.

Decisions

2008-09 Term

Lourdes Medical Center v. Bd. of Review
* ttp://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/decisions/supreme/a-80-08.opn.html M.S. v. Millburn Police Dept.br>State v. Byrd; State v. Dean
- Adopted forfeiture-by-wrongdoing doctrine

2007-08 Term

2006-07 Term

- companion case to Simon

- Companion case to Simon

2005-06 Term

2004-05 Term

* ttp://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/decisions/supreme/a-66-03.opn.html DiProspero v. Pennbr>French v. Hernandez
- Companion case to DiProspero

- Companion case to Natale

- Companion case to Natale

2003-04 Term

- Companion case to Ferreira

* ttp://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/decisions/supreme/a-53-02.opn.html Vastano v. Algeier

2002-03 Term

Frugis v. Bracigliano

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