State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Nicholas Stefanelli, Samuel Corsaro, and Robert Bisaccia…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the Appellate Division and reinstated the defendants' convictions. It held that a co‑conspirator's guilty plea is inadmissible as substantive evidence of a conspiracy, that the trial court's error in admitting it was harmless, and that the amendment of the indictment to correct the date was permissible. The Court also affirmed that the lack of a limiting instruction did not require reversal because the error was harmless.