State v. R.D.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

CIANCIA, J.A.D.

This appeal is before us on remand from the Supreme Court. State v. R.D., 169 N.J. 551, 781 A.2d 37 (2001). Defendant was convicted of second-degree sexual assault upon his seven-year-old granddaughter, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2b, and related offenses. Initially, we reversed defendant’s judgment of conviction finding plain error in the trial court’s failure to interrogate other jurors as to possible taint when it excused one juror who recollected after the start of trial that he had attended the victim’s mother in the hospital as a nurse. That…