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SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO . A

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Plai ntiff

- Respondent,

v. JAZAAR R. REDDING,
Defendant

- Appellant.

_______________________

Submitted January 21, 2021

– Decided March 9, 2021 Before Judges Alvarez and Sumners. On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Monmouth County, Indictment No. 04

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- 2729. Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender , attorney for appellant (Steven E. Braun, Designated Counsel, on the brief). Christopher J. Gramiccioni, Monmouth County Prosecutor, attorney for respondent (Monica do Outeiro, Assista nt Prosecutor, of counsel and on the brief).
PER CURIAM NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION This opinion shall not "constitute precedent or be binding upon any court

. " A lthough it is posted on the internet , this opinion is binding only on the parties in the case and its use in other cases is limited

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Defendant Jazaar R. Redding appeals Law D ivision orders of August 2,
2013 and August 23 , 2018 , denying his petitions for post

- conviction relief (PCR) without an evidentiary hearing

. W e affirm. The basis for defendant's petitions arises from h is claim that trial counsel
advised him that he would be receiving community supervision for life (CSL)
and not the more stringen t parole supervision for life (PSL) when he pled guilty

on January 10, 2005 , to third

- degree endangering the welfare of a child, N.J.S.A.
2C:24

- 4 ( a ). T he record reveals that defendant w as placed on CSL and PSL , and then just PSL

. Trial counsel s t ated t he Megan's Law plea form , including "[t]he special
one that .

. . explains to [defendant] exactly what community supervision for life
entails [,] " w as " filled out [] " with and " explained " to defendant

. D efendant
confirmed this , also stating that he re ad and understood t he plea form

. Th e Megan 's Law conditions were reinforced by the judge 's admonition to defendant
that he would be " subject to [ the ] provisions of Megan’s Law. That is community supervision for life

. . . . [A] mong other things,

. . . you can’t leave the state without anybody telling you to, and there has been a two

- page document explaining to you in detail what community supervision for life is. "
After defendant admitted that he had "sexual relations" with a f ourteen

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girl, the judge accepted his plea because it was entered " with full understanding [] " and "voluntarily [

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I n accordance with the plea agreement , d efendant was sentenced by the same judge o n April 29 , 2005 , to two years ' probation and time served. The judge stated he would be subject to " [t]he provisions of Megan’s Law [ , ] " with

" parole supervision for life

. " There was no mention of CSL. The judgment of
conviction (JOC) entered on May 3, 2005 , not ed that , with two pre

- fil l ed chec k boxes indicating defendant was sentenced to " community supervision for life "
and " a LIFE .

. . term of parole supervision [

. ] " Defendant di d not file a direct appeal.
On December 2 , 2005, an a mended JOC dated November 28 , 2005 , was entered, not ing : " THE IMPOSITION OF SENTENCE IS SUSPENDED , AND
THE DEFENDANT IS SENTENCED TO PAROLE SUPERVISION FOR
LIFE. " On April 19, 2012, n early seven years after his May 3, 2005 JOC and six

and

- a - half years after his December 2, 200 5 amended JOC , defendant filed a p ro se PCR petition alleging counsel was ineffective for not fully explaining t he concept of PSL and not arguing that he should not be subject to PSL because , among other reasons, the victim w as not raped and she misled him to believe4 A

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she was ei ghteen years old , and he was not a sexual predator

. After be ing assigned counsel , defendant argued that the five

- year statutory time limit to file
for PCR should not apply "because he did not understand the law or the benefits of appealing his case, and he felt that the case was closed once he was
convicted

. " Defendant's petition was dismissed with prejudice in an August 2, 2013
order , when he failed to appear for oral argument

. PCR counsel did not know why defendant was not present . He advised the judge tha t the last time they met
he told defendant of the court date, and that "every [ phone ] number I

. . . have right now is off and not working." T he judge s t ated defendant's peti ti on was filed " almost " six

- and

- a - half years after the amended JOC , " well outside the
five

- year time limit [] mandated by [ R ule ] 3:22

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. " Despite noting that he "was not overly impressed with [defendant's] argument [,]" the judge did not
address "the merits of the petition in light of the fact that defendant has faile d

t o" appear

. Defendant did not appea l the August 2 , 2013 dismissal order , but over thirteen months later, on November 12 , 2014, a different defense counsel filed

a motion to reconsider th e order

. Defendant asserted that prior PCR counsel
failed to advise him of the August 2, 2013 argument date. He also alleged that5 A

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prior counsel forged his signature on a "Notice of Right to Appeal (Post

Conviction Relief)" form.
The s a me PCR judge who dismissed defendant's first PCR pe tition , heard argument, and denied the application in a July 10, 2015 order and written
decision

. The judge initially determined that the motion to reconsider was untimely because it was filed over a year past the twenty

- day period to file a
reconsideration motion required by Rule 1:7

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. C onsidering the motion a second PCR because it alleged th at the first PCR counsel failed to advise
defendant of PCR argument date , the judge de t ermined the application was untimely under Rule 3:2 2

- 12(a)(2)(C) because it was not filed within one year
of the August 2, 2013 dismissal of the first PCR petition

. Defendant's application was three months and ten days late. T he judge further pointed out
that defendant fail ed to provide an affidavit or certification supporting the allegation that he was not advised of the August 2 , 2013 hearing date. See State v. Cummings , 321 N.J. Super 154, 170 (App. Div. 1999). The judge also addressed the merits of defendant ' s underlying PCR claim
that counsel was ineffective for not fully explaining the concept of PSL and , th erefore, he should not be subject to PSL

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there was no proof of excusable neglect for the late filing

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- 12(a)(1). The judge further found there was no showing that a fundamental injustice
would result because defendant professe ed no claim of innocence to the
conviction of endangering the welfare of a child , but merely asserted he should not be subject to PSL

. R. 3:22

- 12(a)(1). Defen d ant did not appeal the July 10,
2015 order

. Nearly three years later , a self

- represented defendant filed a nother PCR petition dated June 28, 2018

. Based upon the record , it is not apparent what
defendant alleged because that petition is not provided

. D efendant's two

- page form affidavit in support of PCR , specifying his conviction, sentence, and prior PCR petition , is provided, but it makes no mentio n of his claims.
A different judge , treating the petition as a " second " PCR petition , denied
relief in an August 23, 201 8 order statin g the:

. . . petition is out of time under Rule 3:22

- 12(a)(3), which only permits a second petition for post

conviction relief to be treated as a first petition if filed within 90 days of the date of the judgment on direct appeal, and Rule 3:22

- 12(a)(2), which requires a second petition for post

- convic tion relief be filed within one year after the denial of the first petition

. . . . Before us, defendant argues:7 A

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TRIAL DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BY FAILING TO PROPERLY INFORM DEFENDANT THAT HE WAS SUBJECT TO PAROLE SUPERVISION FOR L IFE, THEREBY MAKING DEFENDANT'S PLEA UNKNOWING AND INVOLUNTARY. HE ALSO FAILED TO OBJECT OR CORRECT THE TRIAL COURT WHEN IT IMPOSED PAROLE SUPERVISION FOR LIFE.
POINT II
DEFENDANT WAS NOT AWARE OF THE AGE OF THE ALLEGED VICTIM, AND THUS HIS GUILTY PLEA WAS NEITHER KNOWING NOR VOLUNTARY [

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We find no merit in these arguments

. Defendant 's appeal of the August 2, 2013 order , which d ismissed his first
PCR petition , was not timely filed within forty

- five days. R. 2:4

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late to challenge that order in his appeal. T he petition wa s also deficient because
it was filed well after five year s of the conviction being challenged , with no showing of excusable neglect for its tardy filing and that fundamental injustice
would occur if relief w ere denied

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. D efendant's appeal of the September 5, 2018 order likewise suffers from

a timeliness deficiency. The order properly den ied essentially defendant's third8 A

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PCR petition filed on June 28, 2018 , because it was filed well after one year of
the second or subsequent petition

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. No further discussion is needed in this opinion as defendant's arguments
l ack sufficient merit. 1 R. 2:11

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1 The appendix to defendant's merits briefs includes a May 22, 2019 certification from an Assistant Public Defender and a September 6, 2018 letter to defendant from the Office of Attorney Ethics of the Supreme Court enclosing a Court order of the same date stating that trial counsel was suspended from the practice of law for three months as a result of an ethics complaint defendant filed against counsel. The Court agreed with the findings of the Disciplinary Review Board that counsel violated

RPC 1.2(a) (failure to abide by a client's decisions concerning the scope and objectives of the representation) [ ; ] RPC l.4(b) (failure to keep a client reasonably info r med about the status of the matter) [ ; ] RPC 3.3(a)(l) (knowing [ly] making a false statement of material fact or law to a tribunal) [ ; ] RPC 4.l(a)(1) (knowingly making a false statement of material fact or law to a third person) [;] RPC 8.1(a)(knowingly making a false statement of material fact in connection with a disciplinary matter) [ ; ] and RPC 8. 4(c)(conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation) [

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Because the Court's order was not brought to trial court 's attention and defendant's brief does not explain how the order impacts this appeal, we do not consider it. See State v . Marroccelli , 448 N.J. Super. 349, 373 (App. Div. 2017) (holding we "decline to consider questions or issues not properly presented to the trial court . . . unless the questions so raised on appeal go to the jurisdiction of the trial court or concern matt ers of great public interest.") (alteration in original) (quoting State v. Robinson , 200 N.J. 1, 20 (2009) ) ; Gormley v. Wood

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Affirmed.

El , 218 N.J. 72, 95 n.8 (2014) (recognizing a n issue not briefed is deemed waived ).