The opinion of the court was delivered by COBURN, J.A.D.
This appeal from a pretrial ruling in favor of defendant concerns the admissibility before a jury in a murder case of opinion testimony from a social psychologist, offered by defendant as an expert in police interrogation and false confessions, on the subject of the credibility of defendant's confessions. We reverse.
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The issue arose after a N.J.R.E. 104 hearing, resulting from defendant...
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