State v. Irving

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

CLIFFORD, J.

We granted certification, 108 N.J. 175 (1987), to review the Appellate Division’s resolution of several important issues raised in defendant’s appeal from judgments of conviction, after a jury trial, on several criminal charges. Those issues arose from the cross-examination of defendant on the basis of his original notice of alibi, from the prosecutor’s comment in summation on defendant’s failure to produce an alibi witness, and from a detective’s testimony about “information” that led the police to consider defendant a suspect.

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