STATE v. MOODY


169 N.J. Super. 177 (1978)

404 A.2d 370

THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. JACK MOODY, DEFENDANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.

Decided October 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph Scaturo, Assistant Prosecutor, for the State (Mr. Donald Coburn, Essex County Prosecutor, attorney).

Mr. Roger A. Solomon, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, for defendant (Mr. Stanley C. VanNess, Public Defender, attorney).


MARTINO, J.C.C. (temporarily assigned).

The question before the court concerns the construction of Evid. R. 63(3) (b), adopted by the Supreme Court in 1967. That rule provides in relevant part that

* * * where the declarant is unavailable as a witness, testimony is admissible if ... (b) in a criminal proceeding, the testimony was given by the declarant personally as a witness in a former trial of a criminal proceeding in which the issue was such that...

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