State v. Jackmon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

CONLEY, J.A.D.

This appeal from murder and other related convictions arises from an armed drug robbery involving three perpetrators that either went according to plan, as the State contends, or went awry, according to defendant. At issue are errors in the jury instructions on the accomplice liability and attempted murder charges under State v. Bielkiewicz, 267 N.J.Super. 520, 632 A.2d 277 (App.Div.1993), and State v. Rhett, 127 N.J. 3, 601 A.2d 689 (1992). The errors were not objected to below and thus must be viewed under the rubric of plain error. We…