New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 3/21/1997

State v. Jenkins

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299 N.J. Super. 61
690 A.2d 643
1997 N.J. Super. LEXIS 128

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holding that violations of probation may not be used to impeach a defendant's credibility
holding prosecutor's comments on defendant's post-arrest silence were justified in response to defendant's direct-examination testimony and defense counsel's summation
finding that defendant's \open[ing] the door\ on his post-arrest silence justified State's comments on it
finding prosecutor's comment on \post-arrest silence ordinarily would be improper\ during summation, but the A-0928-20 78 defendant \opened the door\ by suggesting he had not been given the opportunity to explain what occurred
a prosecutor has the right to call to the jury's attention discrepancies in a defendant's testimony and then argue that the defendant was not truthful, but cannot express a personal opinion regarding the credibility of a defendant's testimony

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