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· 4/17/1990

Mc Combs v. New Jersey State Police

Citations

  • 242 N.J. Super. 261
  • 576 A.2d 349
  • 1990 N.J. Super. LEXIS 245

How courts have described this case

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  • although the evidence was entirely circumstantial as to who committed the crimes, it was legally sufficient to support both the mother and father’s convictions for the malice murder of their infant
  • although evidence was circumstantial as to which parent committed the crimes, it was legally sufficient to support both the mother and father’s convictions for the malice murder of their infant as a party to the crimes
  • circumstantial evidence was sufficient to support malice murder convictions where evidence showed that the child was healthy when she left the hospital following her birth, her injuries were non-accidental, and she was in the sole care of the defendants when her injuries occurred

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Judges: Villanueva

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