Sackler v. Sackler

Chief Judge Desmond.

Plaintiff husband was given a divorce judgment against his wife on a jury’s verdict of adultery, and the Appellate Division agreed. The question of law on this appeal: should the proof as to the wife’s guilt have been excluded from evidence because it was gotten by means of an illegal forcible entry into the wife’s home by the husband and several private investigators employed by him? Agreeing with the Trial Justice and the Appellate Division, we hold that the evidence was admissible.

Nowhere, as all admit, is there any constitutional, statutory or decisional authority for…