State v. Andretta

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Proctor, J.

This case brings the method of voice identification through the use of the spectrogram, the so-called voiceprint, before us once more. We previously considered this method in State v. Cary, 49 N. J. 343 (1967), on remand 99 N. J. Super. 323 (Law Div. 1968), remanded again 53 N. J. 256 (1969), aff’d 56 N. J. 16 (1970).

On March 31, 1967, the Middlesex County Grand Jury returned indictments against the defendants for threatening to do bodily injury to one Albert Soffer unless the sum of $7,400 should be paid to the defendants, in violation of…