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… APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NOS. A-2022-18T2 A-2024-18T2 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. R.K., … appeals consolidated for all purposes as they share common facts and issues. 3 A-2022-18T2 I. We begin with a … on Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. ___, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017), which found a North Carolina statute making it a …
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… OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-4632-17T5 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. MARK MELVIN, … N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1) and (2). State v. Melvin, No. A-3003-14 (App. Div. Mar. 1, 2017) (slip op. at 5). The judge … consideration of evidence adduced at trial that defendant committed the murders in finding and weighing the …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-2248-22 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ARTESTE J. … defendant was convicted of third-degree conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, attempting to cause significant … Div. 1991) (quoting Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U.S. 291, 300-01 (1980)). "[B]ooking procedures and the routine …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-2429-23 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. RUSSELL E. … the relevant factual and procedural history. On May 30, 2019, defendant, a Pennsylvania resident, was found … failed to include a statement of the extraordinary and compelling circumstances, as required by Rule 3:28-3(b)(1), …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-3783-22 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. LAMONT CRYMES, … year prison sentence, rather than the State's recommended seven-year prison term subject to the No Early … court. and an appendix. Following oral argument on May 30, 2023, the PCR court rendered a well- reasoned oral …
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… OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-0172-15T3 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. LEE H. … No. 14-02-0372 for an unrelated drug offense, which was committed approximately two months after the offense that is … established the following relevant facts. On November 30, 2012, at approximately 9:45 p.m., Ruiz was conducting a …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-1713-22 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. TINA LUNNEY, … with the murder conviction. The details of defendant's offenses are recounted thoroughly in our unpublished opinion … was "neither cognitively nor incapable of abstract comprehension"; (3) the record amply supported the judge's …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-4379-19 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. BELAL RAHIM, … previously convicted of a driving while ability impaired offense in the State of New York. Therefore, he was … the DWI charge, in exchange for the State's agreement to recommend dismissal of the four other charges. During his plea …
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… OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-3811-18T1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. COLBY … to count two of the indictment, in exchange for the State recommending he serve a ten-year prison term, subject to the … whether a defendant's assertion of innocence is more than a blanket, bald statement and rests instead on …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-1872-19 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. HASSAN TODD, … Jersey, Law Division, Essex County, Indictment No. 18-12-4130. Morgan A. Birck, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, … shooter from the photo arrays presented to them. Holmes had compiled the photo arrays so that all six photos in each …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-0332-23 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. JUDSON PORTER, … an evidentiary hearing. In a cogent written decision accompanying the order, Judge John Zunic considered the … them the perpetrator's appearance and clothing. Responding officers in the area observed defendant, whose appearance …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-1381-20 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. KEREEM T. … around the city that are tuned to differentiate a gunshot compared to other noises. And once it hears a gunshot, it[] … reasonable fear for [their] own or others' safety. [Id. at 30.] This is a "narrowly drawn authority to permit a …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-3983-22 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. BRANDON A. … Jersey, Law Division, Camden County, Indictment No. 19-09-2304. Jennifer N. Sellitti, Public Defender, attorney for … N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(a); second-degree conspiracy to commit kidnapping, N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2; first-degree felony …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-3213-20 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. RAHEEM JONES, … Jones guilty of the murder of L.S. and related weapons offenses. State v. Jones, No. A-5394-15 (App. Div. Dec. 14, … advise him of his sentencing exposure if he went to trial compared to the State's more favorable plea offer; failed to …
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… OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-0062-17T3 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. CHARLES … of that decision. State v. Savage, 120 N.J. 594, 630 (1990) (quoting State v. Bogus, 223 N.J. Super. 409, 423 (App. Div. 1989)). "[A] defendant's complete understanding of his right to testify can be …
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… OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-0032-15T4 STATE IN THE INTEREST OF D.L., a juvenile. … a seventeen-year-old juvenile at the time the offenses were committed, appeals from two July 29, 2015 juvenile … of marijuana charges would be reinstated. On June 30, 2015, D.L. was charged with failing to attend and …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-3309-21 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. JAMES … boxes" in the downstairs office, which were locked. Accompanied by 4 A-3309-21 police, Kevin Jr. accessed the …
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… Director of the Courts Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex • P.O. Box 037 • Trenton, NJ 08625-0037 njcourts.gov • Tel: 609-376-3000 • Fax: 609-376-3002 TO: Assignment Judges DIRECTIVE … Speedy Trial - Guidance Articulated by the Supreme Court in State v. Marcus S. Mackroy-Davis (A-43-21) (decided June 27, …
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… OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-2657-18T1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. KEVIN LLOYD, … May 12, 2020 – Decided June 26, 2020 Before Judges Hoffman and Currier. On appeal from the Superior Court of New … offered or how their testimony could have affected the outcome of the case. The court stated that defendant's …
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… COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. A-1876-20 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. SHAWNTEE D. … October 2015, the Union County Prosecutor's Office (UCPO) commenced a wiretap investigation targeting Kalil Cooper, a … credible evidence in the record." State v. Lamb, 218 N.J. 300, 313 (2014). This deference is applicable regardless of …