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· 4/8/2008

State v. Feal

Citations

  • 944 A.2d 599
  • 194 N.J. 293
  • 2008 N.J. LEXIS 312

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a decision has retroactive application when the opinion \announced\ a \new rule of law.\
  • explaining that when a new rule is not at issue, the court will not do a retroactivity analysis but will apply the law as it has always been
  • finding no plain error from \the prosecutor's fleeting references\ in closing that the defendant changed his story \after hearing all the witnesses testify\
  • declining to find A-2581-21 16 plain error where the prosecutor cross-examined the defendant, and commented in summation, about his presence in the courtroom where the \defendant's testimony at trial was obviously not cut to fit that of the other witnesses he saw\
  • discussing plain error when according a new rule pipeline retroactivity
  • noting Daniels established a bright-line rule

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Judges: Long

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