State v. Berisha, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019).  None of us likes to admit our mistakes.  That includes judges, of course, though judges sometimes do change their minds, as discussed here. Yesterday, Judge Fisher issued a panel opinion in this post-conviction relief appeal involving a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.  He unabashedly confessed error by a prior panel, on which he sat (with two other, now-retired judges), on defendant’s direct appeal. In the very first paragraph of his opinion, Judge Fisher noted that the prior opinion had been “clouded by our...

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