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· 6/30/1988

Rothman v. Department of Community Affairs

Citations

  • 226 N.J. Super. 229
  • 543 A.2d 1035
  • 1988 N.J. Super. LEXIS 258

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “an appealing party may not use its brief to expand its enumeration of errors by arguing the incorrectness of a trial court ruling not mentioned in the enumeration of the errors.”
  • Bruton violation, if any, was harmless, noting the State’s case “was very strong.”
  • failure to raise futile objection did not constitute ineffective assistance where State was entitled to impeach defendant with evidence of prior arrest after defendant volunteered that he had “‘never had any problems with the law before’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Skillman

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