State v. J.A.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PARRILLO, J.A.D.

The novel issue in this appeal from the Law Division’s denial of a post-conviction relief (PCR) petition is whether the Supreme Court’s decision in State v. P.H., 178 N.J. 378, 840 A.2d 808 (2004), that a jury may consider the timing of a victim’s disclosure of sexual abuse in assessing credibility, is to be given complete retroactivity to encompass cases on collateral review, where all avenues of direct appeal have been exhausted. For the following reasons, we hold the rule of P.H., which disapproved the contrary *515holding of State v.…