New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 4/23/1991

State v. Merritt

Citations

589 A.2d 648
247 N.J. Super. 425

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noting difference between “armed with a weapon” and “in possession of a weapon,” and that “ ‘armed’ connotes not only possession but also immediate access to a weapon”
applying abuse of discretion standard to admission of prior inconsistent statements
applying abuse of discretion standard to admission of prior inconsistent statements
The “common understanding [is] that ‘a person is “armed” if a weapon is “easily accessible and readily available for use . . . .”’” (quoting Hall, 732 P.2d at 527)
where the perpetrators of a burglary handled weapons as they were removing them, the “weapons would have been readily available for the burglars to use if the victim or the police had interrupted them while they were committing the offense”

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