STATE v. FORTIN


724 A.2d 818 (1999)

318 N.J. Super. 577

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Steven FORTIN, Defendant-Appellant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided March 1, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anderson D. Harkov, E. Brunswick, for defendant-appellant (Mr. Harkov, on the brief; Robert A. Obler, Trenton, of counsel and on the brief).

Nicholas Ruggiero, Assistant Prosecutor, for plaintiff-respondent (Glenn Berman, Middlesex County Prosecutor, attorney; Mr. Ruggiero, of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges KING, WALLACE and FALL.


The opinion of the court was delivered by FALL, J.S.C. (temporarily assigned)

In these consolidated, accelerated appeals in this capital murder case, pursuant to R. 2:2-4 we granted defendant's motions for leave to appeal from two pre-trial evidential rulings. The Law Division judge held other-crime evidence can be admitted against defendant during his trial, pursuant to N.J.R.E. 404(b), on the contested issue...

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