OPINION OF THE COURT Bellacosa, J. A detective may not be permitted to testify that a person being investigated and queried about the commission of a crime, who was not shown to understand English, responded with a high shrug of the shoulders. Comment by the prosecutor in summation compounded the prejudicial inferences of guilt which the jury was allowed to draw from this gesture. Further, in a rape case wh…
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