State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Fausto Camacho, A/K/A Sparks, Defendant-Respondent

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey held that the trial court’s failure to give a requested no‑adverse‑inference (Carter) instruction is a trial error subject to harmless‑error analysis, not a per se reversible structural error, and found that in this case the omission was harmless, thereby affirming the conviction and reversing the Appellate Division’s automatic reversal.