Legal Opinion
State v. Short
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided January 20, 1993PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
HANDLER, J.
In this case we must decide how a trial court should instruct a jury when the evidence would support a conviction on a lesser included offense to the offense charged but the statute of limitations has run on that lesser included offense.
I
Defendant John Short and his wife Candice Short resided together in an apartment in Belleville, New Jersey. Their marriage was not always smooth. In the fall of 1980, after about two years of marriage, the couple separated for about a week. For that week Candice stayed with her parents, Frederick and Helen…
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