State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Teddy Rose, Defendant-Appellant

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed Teddy Rose's murder conviction and related offenses, but set aside his death sentence and remanded for a new sentencing proceeding. The Court held that the trial court correctly refused to charge aggravated manslaughter, that the admission of certain past‑conduct evidence was harmless, and that the failure to give a limiting instruction on that evidence required reversal of the death sentence. A dissent would have reversed the murder conviction as well, while a concurrence agreed with the majority on the sentence but not on the conviction.