State v. Lyle

Full title: STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. ANDREW HENRY LYLE

Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey

Date published: Dec 3, 1981

446 A.2d 121 (N.J. 1981)

89 N.J. 381

Opinion

December 3, 1981.

The Court having determined that the certifications were improvidently granted; It is ORDERED that the within appeals be and hereby are dismissed.

SCHREIBER, J., concurring:

I joined the dissenting opinion in State v. Lyle, 73 N.J. 403, 414 (1977), holding that defendant's partial silence was properly usable to affect his credibility. However, the majority of the Court ruled otherwise. This ruling became the law of the case. Under these circumstances, I agree with the Appellate Division that the defendant should be retried under the guidelines in the majority opinion. Though I concur in the order vacating the grant of the petition for certification, I continue to adhere to the dissent. See also Jenkins v. Anderson, 447 U.S. 231, 100 S.Ct. 2124, 65 L.Ed.2d 86 (1980), and Anderson v. Charles, 447 U.S. 404, 100 S.Ct. 2180, 65 L.Ed.2d 222 (1980).