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RICHARD SPARACO, ESQ.
Since 1981
​Criminal Defense Attorney
Federal - State - Municipal
State of New Jersey
Federal District of New Jersey
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
​All NJ/PA Municipal Courts


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The courage to fight for your rights no matter the odds.
Since 1981.
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Recipient of
​The Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
2009 Award for Courage in the handling of the Ft. Dix Six terrorism trial.

​COVID-19 ALERTS:
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Supreme Court-Ordered Mediation Yields Agreement on Release of Low-Risk County Jail Inmates

New Jersey Supreme Court has suspended all jury trials except those already in progress.

New Jersey Supreme Court has eliminated the requirement of "excessive hardship" for filing requests to enter guilty pleas in municipal court in absentia.

Municipal courts are an indeterminate delay. 

We are OPEN, and certainly respect (and strongly encourage) our clients' needs to be extremely cautious.  We support a risk-free relationship. Therefore, I am conducting videoconference interviews whenever possible during the New Jersey Governor's Executive Order 107: "Stay at Home.".  

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HIGH PROFILE CASES OF RICHARD SPARACO

Bloomfield Police Officer's Conviction for Official Misconduct Upheld Despite Errors of Trial Court
May 12, 2020: Attorney Richard Sparaco represented Bloomfield police officer Orlando Trinidad in his appeal from conviction of official misconduct for the alleged assault on a black motorist. Sparaco raised the issue that his client did not receive a fair trial because the trial court allowed the alleged victim to testify that he was in fear because of other high provide cases such as the Rodney King trial in Los Angeles,  Sean Bells, the Amadou Diallos, and the Oscar Grant case. The Appellate Division (and recently the New Jersey Supreme Court) upheld the conviction despite acknowledging the trial court's errors. Instead, the court held the errors the be "harmless." Justice Albin disagreed in a well-written dissent, stating that "[I]n a trial of a police officer for allegedly assaulting a person of color (Jeter), no testimony could have been more incendiary. The only issue in this trial should have been … Trinidad’s individual guilt …. Permitting the jury to draw a connection to those past cases of police misconduct created an intolerable risk that the jury condemned Trinidad on the basis of collective guilt."

​Sentencing in 2018 Murder
Richard Sparaco represented Curtis Miller in a circumstantial evidence case, where Miller and his brother were found guilty in the 2018 shooting death of Thomas Reyes on the streets of Camden.  Camden County Detectives weave together a convincing case of evidence, including surveillance video tracking Miller and his brother, Ryan Wilkins to and from the murder scene, with DNA, gunshot residue, and phone records connecting the brothers to the murder. Miller was caught on surveillance video discarding his jacket minutes after the shooting that later proved to contain gunshot residue. He then called his cousin to ask her to report the van allegedly used in the murder as stolen. Miller was identified by family members and others as being the person depicted in the several surveillance videos. (Miler's brother, Bronk Miller, also represented by Sparaco, was previously acquitted of murder. See next article.)  Curtis was sentenced on October 28, 2020 to 45 years in NJ State Prison for the murder, and an additional 10 wars for being a certain person not to possess a firearm. His brother received 30 years for acting as his accomplice.

Murder Acquittal and Murder Dismissal in 2018
CAMDEN – Two men who once faced the possibility of life in prison on murder charges have received substantially shorter terms.  Laquan Shaw, a 25-year-old city man accused of a gruesome slaying in April 2013, got a five-year term Friday after admitting guilt to a drug crime under a plea agreement, court records show. Shaw’s trial for the slaying of Adrian Rivera, a 23-year-old who allegedly stole from a Camden drug set, ended with a hung jury earlier this year.
In the other case, Bronk Miller of Pennsauken was sentenced to 10 years for the slaying of a Camden man shot 11 times in November 2015.


Murder Acquittal
June 18, 2018: Bronk Miller, represented by Cherry Hill attorney Richard Sparaco - Not Guilty of Murder, Not Guilty of Aggravated Manslaughter, Not Guilt of Weapons Possession, but Guilty of second-degree manslaughter.  Sentenced to ten (10) years.

Murder Acquittal 
August 22, 2017: Wilbert Shively, represented by Cherry Hill attorney Richard Sparaco, was found Not Guilty by a jury of all charges related to an August 2013 Murder in Camden.  The jury took only about three hours of deliberations before totally exonerating Shively, who allegedly shot and killed the victim from the rear seat of a vehicle driven by the victim. (8/22/17)

Sexual Assault Acquittal

March 23, 2017: Jury acquits masseuse, represented by Cherry Hill attorney Richard Sparaco, who was accused of sexual assault.  A Gloucester County jury acquitted the man accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a local spa in 2012.  The man worked as a massage therapist at a spa in Washington Township when a woman visiting for her first massage claimed he touched her inappropriately and assaulted her. Following a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for 50 minutes before finding Sparaco's client not guilty on all counts

Murder Acquittal
April 15, 2016: Richard Sparaco, Esq.: 2012 Murder Trial in Camden - Third Consecutive Murder Acquittal in Camden County, New Jersey.

Murder Acquittal 
 Jury Acquits Camden Man, Taurean Houston, represented by Cherry Hill attorney Richard Sparaco, of Murder in 2011 Innocent Bystander Shooting (9/30/15)

Murder Acquittal
Jury Acquits Man, Duron Williams, represented by Cherry Hill attorney Richard Sparaco, of Murder in 2010 Shooting on Camden Streets (6/14/12)


Read ESPN's interview of
Richard Sparaco on Ray Rice


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1920 Fairfax Ave.
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

856-751-8888
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Philadelphia, PA

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