State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Ibn Adams, A/K/A Ali Ibn Adams (Fact), Ali-Ibn Adams (Ap-Mis) and Ibn…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed the Appellate Division's judgments, holding that the trial court properly admitted the out-of-court photo identifications because the witnesses were reliable despite the suggestive procedures, that the failure to give a limiting instruction on co-defendant Harrison's guilty plea was not plain error, and that the defendants' sentences did not exceed the presumptive terms and therefore required no resentencing. The Court declined to modify the existing standard for admissibility of identification evidence. Justice Albin, in a concurring opinion, argued that the Court should adopt a new rule prohibiting highly suggestive identification procedures.