State v. Loftin

Supreme Court of New Jersey · Decided 1996-08-08

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HANDLER, J., dissenting. This capital-murder prosecution was rife with errors that strike at the core of our system of capital punishment. The errors serve to undermine the fundamental procedures that the Court has determined to be essential and has painstakingly established as the basis for the constitutional imposition of a death sentence. By minimizing and disregarding these errors, the Court sanctions the co…

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