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State v. Boone

Citations

  • 327 A.2d 661
  • 66 N.J. 38
  • 1974 N.J. LEXIS 134

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding evidence of a withdrawn guilty plea is highly prejudicial and therefore, inadmissible for any purpose at trial
  • declining to extend Harris and rejecting \the view that withdrawn pleas are admissible to impeach the credibility of the defendant who elects to testify at his trial\
  • declining to extend Harris and rejecting \the view that withdrawn pleas are admissible to impeach the credibility of the defendant who elects to testify at his trial\
  • affirming the reversal of the defendant’s conviction because the court’s curative instruction could not remedy the fact that the jury learned that the defendant had entered a guilty plea that had been withdrawn
  • a withdrawn plea of guilty is not admissible in evidence in a subsequent criminal proceeding

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Judges: Pashman

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