Supreme Court of New Jersey· 3/10/1959

State v. West

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149 A.2d 217
29 N.J. 327
1959 N.J. LEXIS 222

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reversing guilty verdict based on “a number of prejudicial errors which in their aggregate permit no other course,” including incompetent and prejudicial testimonial proof and prosecutor’s improper cross-examination of defendant
\[The prosecutor] is not an ordinary adversary; he represents the State whose interest is served by an untainted judgment firmly rooted in facts alone.\
“[The prosecutor] is not an ordinary adversary; he represents the State whose interest is served by an untainted judgment firmly rooted in facts alone.”
\[t]hat evidence is shrouded with unsavory implications is no reason for exclusion when it is a significant part of the proof.\
securities offered in telephone conversation between seller in New Jersey and buyer in New York prosecuted under New Jersey law although stock certificates accepted by buyer in New York
reversing conviction for violation of Securities Law

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