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· 6/27/2016

John Richardson v. Trenton Special School District

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that \[t]his open file approach is intended to ensure fair and just trials\
  • explaining that inconsistent statements made by a confidential informant in another trial were not admissible under N.J.R.E. 608 to impeach the informant's credibility in current trial
  • explaining specific instances of conduct that are relevant only as tending to prove a character trait are inadmissible to affect a witness's A-0604-18T2 22 credibility
  • first quoting State in Int. of A.B., 219 N.J. 542, 554 (2014); and then quoting Pomerantz, 207 N.J. at 371
  • “However expansive our discovery rule and jurisprudence may be, they do not sanction rummaging through irrelevant evidence.”
  • “However expansive our discovery rule and jurisprudence may be, they do not sanction rummaging through irrelevant evidence.”

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Judges: Judge Kenny Armstrong

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