State v. Sutton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pashman, J.

This case constitutes the third and final controversy presented to us today involving the propriety of a prosecutor’s refusal to sanction a defendant’s admission into a county Pretrial Intervention Program (PTI), see B. 3:28. As in State v. Bender, 80 N. J. 84 (1979) and State v. Maddocks, 80 N. J. 98 (1979), we are here called upon to determine whether defendant has “clearly and convincingly” established that the prosecutor’s rejection of her PTI application was based upon “a patent and gross abuse of his discretion.” State v. Leonardis, 73…