State v. Dishon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

HAVEY, P.J.A.D.

At issue in this criminal appeal is: (1) whether defendant was deprived of a fair trial where the trial judge denied defendant’s request to be present during an in camera voir dire of prospective jurors, and the voir dire was conducted after defendant had exercised all of his peremptory challenges; and (2) whether the judge erred in admitting into evidence the results of DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to link defendant with the crimes.

We conclude that the procedure followed by the trial judge deprived defendant of his…