Task: Wrong Candidate Generation
Input (English): years. At the time that this statute was amended and New Jersey’s death penalty legislation was enacted, both effective August 6, 1982, the Legislature and the Governor expressly stated that N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3b provided for mandatory minimum sentences for all convicted murderers not sentenced to death. New Jersey courts have consistently held that N.J.S.A 2C:11-3b imposes a thirty-year mandatory minimum sentence on non-capital murderers. In State v. Ramseur, 106 N.J. 123, 524 A.2d 188 (1987), the Supreme Court clearly indicated that the statute required the imposition of a mandatory minimum term of thirty years in the absence of a death sentence. Id. at 154-55, 524 A.2d 188. That position has been reaffirmed in numerous cases. See State v. Brown, 138 N.J. 481, 511, 651 A.2d 19 (1994) (<HOLDING>); accord State v. Dunne, 124 N.J. 303, 320, 590 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that a term of imprisonment begins at the time a prisoner is sentenced (B) holding that a defendant found guilty of murder not by his own conduct is subject to imprisonment of at least a thirtyyear mandatory term (C) holding that when the defendant was misadvised when entering his guilty plea that he would not have to serve a mandatory parole term following his release from prison fundamental fairness required limiting the term of his sentence to that which comported with the plea bargain (D) holding that   3584a allows the district judge to specify the sequence of service of terms of imprisonment only when sentences are imposed at the same time or the other sentence is an undischarged term of imprisonment to which the defendant is already subject  (E) holding that the statute is mandatory
Output (English): holding that the statute is mandatory