State v. McGraw

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

CLIFFORD, J.

In an unreported opinion the Appellate Division affirmed the convictions of defendant, Douglas McGraw, for second-degree aggravated assault and two possessory offenses. The charges arose out of a melee in the course of which the victim was stabbed. The single issue on which we granted certification, 126 N.J. 337, 598 A. 2d 894 (1991), is posed in defendant’s petition as follows: should the court have told the jury that defendant’s brother Larry McGraw had been called to testify but had invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to do so, or,…