State v. Schlanger

WOLIN, J.S.C.

This opinion supplements a letter opinion and addresses the “no civil use” provision of R. 3:9-2. It examines the considerations to be weighed in permitting a prior guilty plea to be used in pending civil litigation where the monetary aspect of the damages sought is of significant financial consequence. Cognate to this inquiry is the relationship between the concern of a defendant that such plea not be evidential in any subsequent civil proceeding and the desirability to conserve both judicial and prosecutorial resources through disposition of a criminal indictment by plea. The…