State v. Gillispie

Judge STERN

(temporarily assigned) delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certification, following the Appellate Division’s reversal of defendants’ murder convictions at separate trials, to determine the State’s obligation to “sanitize” the details of “other-crimes” evidence introduced under N.J.R.E. 404(b) to prove defendants’ identity. During defendants’ trials on offenses related to a double homicide that occurred in Barnegat on the evening of November 28, 2000, the State introduced other-crimes evidence concerning a robbery that had occurred at a barbershop in the Bronx twenty days…