State v. Johnson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

STEIN, J.

Defendant was tried and convicted of two counts of knowing and purposeful murder, N.J.S.A. 2C:ll-3a(l) and (2); robbery in the first degree, N.J.S.A. 2C:15-1; theft of property, N.J.S.A. 2C:20-3; two counts of possession of a dangerous weapon for an unlawful purpose, N.J.S.A. 2C:39-4a; and unlawful possession of a weapon, N.J.S.A. 2C:39-5b. After a separate sentencing proceeding on the murder charges, N.J.S.A. 2C:ll-3c(l), defendant was sentenced to death for one of the murders, to a life sentence with thirty years of parole ineligibility for…