258 N.J. Super. 41 - State v. Nutter’s Empirical Analysis

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27 state decisions

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1. “[Wle agree that theoretically a policy interest sufficient to outweigh the right to physical confrontation may exist without the formality of statutory codification. However, when the Legislature has considered the issue of the protection of child witnesses and has delineated with precision those limited cireumstances which, upon appropriate findings, will prevail over a defendant's right to face-to-face confrontation, that is the expression of the public policy of this state. We are not free to engraft onto it our own vision of what our public policy is, or should be.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Mosley

2. “[T]here is something deep in human nature that regards face-to-face confrontation between accused and accuser as `essential to a fair trial in a criminal prosecution.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 360 N.J. Super. 101 - State v. Benitez

3. “mistakenly failed to instruct the jury on its duty to determine if defendant's statement to the police was credible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 287 N.J. Super. 478 - State v. Jones