State v. Townsend

I concur with the majority’s holding that “the twenty-year delay between the date of the crime and the date defendant was indicted did not violate defendant’s due process rights.” Ante, 186 N.J. at 480, 897 A.2d at 320 (2006). However, because the majority holds that “the trial court properly admitted expert testimony concerning the common characteristics of battered women and battered woman’s syndrome, and that the failure of the trial court to give a limiting instruction on the use of the expert’s testimony was harmless error[,]” ibid., a conclusion with which I strongly disagree, I…