Case ID: nj_223/html/0290-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

123 A.3d 730
    STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. DARRYL BISHOP, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. WILBERTO TORRES, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
    Argued October 7, 2015
    Decided October 21, 2015.
    
      John W. Douard, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellants (Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney).
    
      
      Joie D. Piderit, Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for respondent (Andrew C. Carey, Middlesex County Prosecutor, attorney).
    
      Jennifer E. Kmieciak, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for amicus curiae Attorney General of New Jersey (John H. Hoffman, Acting Attorney General, attorney).
    
      Jeffrey S. Mandel submitted a letter in lieu of brief on behalf of amicus curiae Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (Cwtolo Mandel, attorneys).
   PER CURIAM.

The judgment of the Appellate Division is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Lisa’s opinion reported at 429 N.J.Super. 533, 60 A.3d 806 (App.Div.2013).

For affirmance — Chief Justice RABNER and Justices LaVECCHIA, ALBIN, PATTERSON and SOLOMON — 5.

Opposed — None.

Not Participating — Justice FERNANDEZ-VINA and Judge CUFF (temporarily assigned) — 2.