State v. Duprey, A-5469-10T4; Appellate Division; opinion by Waugh, J.A.D.; decided and approved for publication August 1, 2012. Before Judges Cuff, Waugh and St. John. On appeal from the Law Division, Essex County, Indictment No. 10-09-2172. [Sat below: Judge Hutchins-Henderson.] DDS No. 14-2-7241 [15 pp.]
This case requires a determination whether testimony given by the plaintiff or defendant during the trial of a domestic-violence matter can be used for the purposes of cross-examination in a related criminal trial, despite the language of N.J.S.A. 2C:25-29(a) that “testimony given by the plaintiff or defendant in the domestic violence matter shall not be used in the simultaneous or subsequent criminal proceeding against the defendant.”
