State v. DiFrisco

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

GARIBALDI, J.

In State v. DiFrisco, 118 N.J. 253, 571 A.2d 914 (1990), (DiFrisco I), we affirmed Anthony DiFrisco’s conviction for the murder of Edward Potcher, but vacated his death sentence and remanded the case for a new penalty-phase hearing. .At the second penalty-phase proceeding, the jury returned a death penalty verdict, and the trial court sentenced defendant to death. In State v. DiFrisco, 137 N.J. 434, 645 A.2d 734 (1994) (DiFrisco II), we affirmed defendant’s death sentence. We granted defendant’s request for proportionality review of his…