Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority v. Borough of Midland Park

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the State’s “general” treatment of similarities between other-acts evidence and the charged crime, and undertaking a “more careful and granular comparison of the two incidents”
• “[T]he test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
• prejudicial effect of other acts evidence outweighed its probative value where there was a “lack of any real prosecutorial need.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).