The Morris County Prosecutor’s Diversion Unit screens applications to the Mental Health and Veterans Diversion programs and Recovery Court, rerouting eligible defendants toward case management and mental-health services as early as possible after an interaction with law enforcement.
Also called: Veterans Diversion, Diversion Unit, prosecutor, Robert J. Carroll, Recovery Court, Mental Health Diversion.
"Diversion Unit (Mental Health Diversion, Veterans Diversion, Recovery Court) - Personnel assigned to the Diversion Unit are responsible for the Mental Health and Veterans Diversion Programs and Recovery Court." "The Mental Health and Veterans Diversion programs are designed to re-route eligible adult individuals away from the criminal justice system and towards appropriate case management and mental health services as early as possible following an interaction with law enforcement, with a purpose of providing and supporting a defendant's rehabilitation and treatment, in an overall effort to reduce recidivism and increase public safety. Unit personnel screen cases and work with outside agencies and defense counsel to identify defendants whose criminal acts were likely caused or influenced by an underlying mental illness. They and other unit personnel assess applications to the Mental Health and Veterans Diversion programs and determine whether the defendant's case should be diverted by a potential dismissal (through PTI or completion of a period of supervision) or whether they should be placed on a period of probation instead of being incarcerated in county jail or state prison."
The prosecutor is Robert J. Carroll. The statement lives on the prosecutor's Courts Administration Division page; the site (an application on the OPS platform) publishes no standalone veterans-diversion route. An earlier prosecutor's release describes the program's origin: "The Veterans Diversion Program was established by law in the state of New Jersey, which went into effect on December 1, 2017. Its purpose is to divert eligible veterans of the United States Armed Forces away from the criminal justice system and toward appropriate case management and mental health services as early as possible following certain criminal allegations." New Jersey has no per-county veterans treatment court list on njcourts.gov; the prosecutor-run diversion is the state's veteran criminal-justice mechanism, and this is the county's own page for it.
Thresholds
Thresholds for Morris County Veterans Diversion
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Rule
Justice-involved veteran
Eligibility runs to defendants whose acts were likely caused or influenced by an underlying mental illness; the prosecutor screens and decides. A disability rating is not the test.
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Disclaimer
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