case and on July 18, 2001, with Mann at his side, entered a plea to harassment. Hughes had been tied to the murder case through a sweater that the police thought was worn by the killer. He submitted to a polygraph examination that did not exonerate him. Thereafter, he threatened a witness that he believed had given the police information about his connection to the homicide. That was the source of the terroristic threats charge. Those threats were legally admissible evidence of Hughes’s consciousness of guilt of the murder. State v. Rechtschaffer, 70 N.J. 395, 413, 360 A.2d 362 (1976) (stating that defendant’s statement that he would kill person who informed against him was admissible as statement against interest); State v. West, 145 N.J.Super. 226, 232-33, 367 A.2d 453 (App.Div.1976) (<HOLDING>), certif. denied, 73 N.J. 67, 372 A.2d 332
holding that the penalty is applicable holding that the defendants due process rights were violated when the trial judge singled out the only defense witness and indicated to that witness that he expected the witness to he and would personally ensure that the witness was prosecuted for perjury and thereby effectively drove that witness off the stand holding the rule was not applicable in a pretrial venue hearing holding that promises made by the prosecution to a witness in exchange for that witness testimony relate directly to the credibility of the witness holding rule applicable to witness