Legal Opinion
State v. Dunne
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided May 30, 1991PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, Justice.
A jury has convicted defendant of a bizarre murder that occurred in the South Mountain Reservation in 1986. The principal ground of appeal before us is that defendant was improperly denied the right to have the charges tried by a judge and not a jury. We hold that there is no unilateral right to a non-jury trial in such circumstances and that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the issues were properly to be decided by a jury.
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2Cases cited15 opinions
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- State v. RothSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1984
- Singer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Craig v. HarneySupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- United States v. Sun Myung Moon and Takeru KamiyamaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by28 opinions
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