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0 commentsTwo DNA experts testified in the fourth day of the trial of Alvin Lee "Butch" Morris for the 1988 murder of Roger Lee Shifflett that DNA found on a Salem Light cigarette collected at the now-defunct...

1 commentsDetective Steve Huffman, now a pastor, read defendant Butch Morris his rights in 1988.
PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE
Long before Alvin Lee "Butch" Morris was arrested 20 years after the murder of Roger Lee...

0 commentsDNA belonging to Butch Morris was found on a cigarette at the Southwind Grocery where Roger Shifflett was slain.
FILE PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE
At a pretrial hearing that stretched all day, the man...The events that led to NJFOG’s formation began in the fall of 1998, when Mark Mittelstadt, the new Associated Press bureau chief in Trenton, approached then-president of the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (NJ-SPJ) Ron Miskoff and NJ-SPJ past-president and board chairman Joseph Tyrrell.

Over lunch, Mittelstadt told them he was surprised at how much harder it was to get government information and records in New Jersey than in New Mexico, his previous posting. He was also dismayed to find there was no freedom of information coalition in New Jersey. Strengthening the open records and meetings laws had been a long-time goal of the New Jersey Press Association (NJPA), a publishers group, but their efforts had not been in conjunction with other organizations. Miskoff and