Legal Opinion
State v. Davis
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 5, 1967PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Weintraub, C. J.
Ralph Davis was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to die. We reversed the judgment because there had been comment upon his failure to testify, in terms forbidden by the opinion handed down thereafter in Griffin v. State of California, 380 U. S. 609, 85 S. Ct. 1229, 14 L. Ed. 2d 106 (1965). State v. Davis, 45 N. J. 195 (1965). The retrial resulted again in the imposition of the death sentence. Defendant appeals directly to us pursuant to R. R. 1:2-1 (c).
The State tried the case upon the thesis that the killing…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Beck v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by72 opinions
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- Schneider v. SimoniniSupreme Court of New Jersey · 2000
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