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STATE v. DABAS

A-109 September Term 2011, 069498

71 A.3d 814 (2013)

215 N.J. 114

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Samander S. DABAS, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 30, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Hulett , Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for appellant ( Bruce J. Kaplan , Middlesex County Prosecutor, attorney).

Marcia H. Blum , Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for respondent ( Joseph E. Krakora , Public Defender, attorney).

Michael J. Williams , Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause amicus curiae Attorney General of New Jersey ( Jeffrey S. Chiesa , Attorney General, attorney).

Justice ALBIN delivered the opinion of the Court.

Defendant Samander Dabas was convicted of the murder of his wife based largely on statements he made to prosecutor's investigators in the early morning hours of August 25, 2004. An investigator's purposeful destruction of his notes taken during two hours of Dabas's interrogation is at the heart of the appeal before us.

After Dabas's arrest, Investigator John Dando of...

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