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Should there have been a N.J.R.E. 104 hearing on defendant’s challenge to the reliability of the State’s expert fingerprint evidence, should the potential jurors have been asked their opinions about the reliability of fingerprint evidence during voir dire, and did two of the State’s witnesses give improper testimony that the same person was depicted in both surveillance videos?

Did defendant satisfy his burden of establishing that the alleged sexual assault victim’s pre-incident mental health records should be produced for the trial court’s in camera review, see State v. Chambers, 252 N.J. 561 (2023)?

Did the submission of a complete application to the City of Hoboken Cannabis Review Board trigger the Municipal Land Use Law’s Time of Application Rule, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-10.5, which provides that the “development regulations which are in effect on the date of submission of an application for development shall govern the review of that application for development and any decision made with regard to that application for development”?

Does the 2019 amendment to the Child Sexual Abuse Act that eliminated the “within the household” requirement for passive abuser liability, see L. 2019, c. 120, § 4 (amending N.J.S.A. 2A:61B-1(a)(1)), apply to this lawsuit filed after the December 1, 2019 effective date of the amendment, but concerning alleged conduct that occurred exclusively before the effective date of the amendment?