State v. Goodman

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

HANDLER, J.

The New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice directs that its procedural provisions shall govern any criminal case involving a crime committed prior to the date upon which the Code became effective and pending on that date. N.J.S.A. 2C:l-lc. The Code also imposes a statutory bar to the criminal prosecution of conduct that was the basis of a conviction or acquittal in a prior . federal criminal proceeding. N.J.S.A. 2C:l-lla. The novel question presented by this case is whether this statutory bar constitutes a “procedural provision” that can be…