State v. Wilson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

STERN, J.A.D.

The novel issue raised on this appeal is whether a criminal defendant, deprived of the proper number of peremptory challenges, is entitled to a new trial. We conclude that there is no per se rule warranting reversal and affirm the conviction in these circumstances where defendant exercised less than the peremptory challenges granted to him by the trial judge and where the record does not indicate the error in any way affected his decisions during the jury selection process. We also reject defendant’s contention that he was deprived of a…