Mitchell J. Ansell

Not Guilty Verdict

Mitchell Ansell, Chairman of the Criminal Defense Department, recently tried a first degree robbery, second degree aggravated assault and second degree burglary Jury trial in Monmouth County Superior Court before Judge Joseph Oxley.  The case was tried during the week of August the 29th 2013 and our client was facing well over 20 years in State Prison based upon all the charges.  

The Jury came back with a not guilty verdict on all first and second degree charges after the trial, thus sparing the client any exposure to any State Prison whatsoever.

Mitchell J. Ansell Defends Accused Rabbi in Prominent Case

Note: This article is reposted from ABC News – View Original Article: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=14096994&singlePage=true#.T7UUdcXrR8E

FBI: US Couple Kidnapped Israeli to Force Divorce

 

By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. July 18, 2011 (AP)

A New Jersey rabbi and his wife surrendered to the FBI on Monday on charges that they abducted an Israeli man, beat him and threatened to bury him alive if he didn’t give his wife a religious divorce.

The case against David Wax and his wife in United States federal court marks a strange twist in a chain of events that started with a divorce dispute in Israel’s Rabbinical Court over the victim’s refusal to give his wife a “get,” an Orthodox Jewish divorce document permitting a wife to remarry.

It also entangles a prominent religious figure and publisher of Jewish texts, described as a “pillar of the community” of Lakewood, N.J., a large Orthodox enclave and center of Jewish learning. (more…)