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State v. Derrick Harris, Sr. (A-103-10) (067348)

Argued October 25, 2011 -- Decided February 27, 2012

WEFING, P.J.A.D. (temporarily assigned), writing for a majority of the Court.

In this appeal, the Court considers whether defendant’s prior convictions for disorderly persons offenses, which are themselves inadmissible because they are not crimes, could be used to find that earlier criminal convictions were not too remote and were thus admissible to impeach the defendant’s credibility if he testified.