Justice VERNIERO, concurring and dissenting. I join the Court in reversing defendant’s conviction and concur in all but one narrow aspect of its opinion. Regarding defendant’s retrial, I would permit the State to play the videotaped excerpt of Arthur Thomas’s testimony from defendant’s previous murder trial. In a real sense, that testimony constitutes the entire reason that def…
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