State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Daniel Delgado A/K/A Daniel Javier Delgado (Birth Name)…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed Daniel Delgado's murder convictions and held that the State's failure to record out-of-court identification procedures did not require suppression of the evidence. The Court, however, exercised its supervisory authority to require that, as a condition to admissibility, law‑enforcement officers make a contemporaneous written record of the dialogue and results of any out‑of‑court identification. The Court also rejected the defendant's arguments that the photographic identifications were impermissibly suggestive and that inanimate‑object identifications should be subject to the same due‑process protections as person identifications.