Court Opinion

ID: 9857256
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 14:24:08.168854+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:38:21.722683
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Justice LONG
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I am in full agreement with the Court’s determination to deny defendant’s post-conviction relief petition based on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. I write separately to reiterate my previously expressed view that inflammatory pretrial publicity, recounted in State v. Harris, 156 N.J. 122, 202-10, 212-18, 716 A.2d 458 (1998) (Handler, J., dissenting), coupled with the trial court’s wholly inadequate efforts to contain it, created a realistic *535likelihood that defendant did not receive a fair trial. State v. Harris 165 N.J. 303, 757 A.2d 221 (2000), Long, J., dissenting.
For denial—Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices LaVECCHIA, ZAZZALI, ALBIN and WALLACE—5.
For concurrence in part/dissent in part—Justice LONG—1.