State v. Chew

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

PORITZ, C.J.

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*190In State v. Chew, 150 N.J. 30, 695 A.2d 1301 (1997) (Chew I), we affirmed John Chew’s conviction and death sentence for the murder of Theresa Bowman. We “preserve[d] defendant’s challenge to the proportionality of his death sentence” for later review, id. at 88, 695 A.2d 1301; see N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3e, and now find no disproportionality.

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Facts

The facts are set forth in detail in Chew I, supra, 150 N.J. at 42-50, 695 A.2d 1301. We repeat here only that which is relevant to our proportionality review.

On the morning of January 13,…