alternate such. State Supreme Court In October 2020, the New Jersey Supreme Court heard the case, with oral argument held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To the issues she had appealed from the trial court, Lodzinski added one from the Appellate Division's opinion: that it had improperly limited its review of the evidence to the prosecution case when considering the reasonableness of the conviction. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner recused himself as he had worked in the office of the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey at the time Wiltsey disappeared and the FBI was assisting in the investigation. In May 2021 the justices deadlocked, leaving the conviction standing. Deadlocked first decision The Court issued a short per curiam opinion stating the outcome. While the Court had deadlocked on the JNOV motion, its other two rulings were unanimous. All the justices upheld the lower court on the mistrial issue, while agreeing with Lodzinski that it should have considered all the evidence in the trial record rather than just that introduced by the prosecution. Concurrence Justice Anne M. Patterson wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina and Lee Solomon, explaining both why the wrong standard had been used and why they believed Lodzinski to have been properly convicted. On the first question, Patterson wrote that the Appellate Division had relied on a precedent that could be distinguished as arising from a motion for a directed verdict, usually made after the state has rested and the defense has yet to present its case. The Appellate Division should have relied on a more recent case, she wrote. The court's clear holding here brought New Jersey's standard in line with the federal standard for post-conviction appellate review. as held by the U.S. Supreme Court in Jackson v. Virginia over four decades earlier. Patterson found nothing to add to the Appellate Division's rejection of the argument about the jury foreman. She considered it reasonable for a jury to have inferred that Wiltsey was killed around the time he disappeared and his body was dumped where it was found later. Patterson acknowledged that the defense had cast considerable doubt on Blair-Dilcher's blanket testimony, but the jury could reasonably have found the other two babysitters' accounts to have supported that claim. Lodzinski's changing accounts of the last time she saw Wiltsey and her omission of Florida Fulfillment from the work history she gave police until after