The ruling could serve as a warning to lawyers about the dangers of committing prosecutorial misconduct by introducing pop culture references that stray beyond the evidence.
January 19, 2021 at 03:35 PM
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned a robbery conviction after finding that a prosecutor’s cinematic reference during trial was unduly prejudicial.
The Supreme Court found that a PowerPoint slide shown to jurors, depicting Jack Nicholson in a scene from “The Shining” where he was wielding an ax and trying to kill his family, deprived the defendant of a fair trial.
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Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” Courtesy of Warner Brothers.
