Legal Opinion

State v. Perry

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided May 20, 1991PublishedCited by 138 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

GARIBALDI, Justice.

On Thursday, February 27, 1986, Arthur Perry went to a second-floor bedroom of an apparently abandoned house at 762 Division Street in Camden, New Jersey, to inject himself with heroin. Jerome Redd, a fourteen-year-old acquaintance of Perry who often supplied Perry with drugs, entered that room before Perry could inject himself with the drugs. The ensuing encounter led to the death of Jerome Redd.

A jury convicted defendant, Arthur Perry, of the murder of Jerome Redd and sentenced him to death. He appeals directly to this Court as a…

2Cases cited65 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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  3. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  5. Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980

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3Cited by138 opinions

  1. State v. LoftinSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1996
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  5. State v. HoganSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1996

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