State v. Staruch

The opinion of the court was delivered by

STERN, P.J.A.D.

After defendant’s application for enrollment in the Pretrial Intervention Program (“PTI”) was denied in June 1996, he pled guilty to a count of an indictment charging him with distribution of marijuana in a school zone.1 Defendant was sentenced to four years in the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections with one year before parole eligibility. Defendant neither appealed to the designated PTI judge from the denial of his application, see R. 3:28(h), and in the absence thereof did not appeal to us notwithstanding his guilty plea, as…