State v. Lige

The opinion of the court was delivered by

ASHRAFI, J.A.D.

When defendant Bruce Lige was tried on the theft charges from which he now appeals, he already had a record of criminal convictions that stood apart from that of the typical recidivist. At the age of forty-seven, he had been convicted and sentenced in the Superior Court about eighteen times for thefts and other offenses, and in the municipal courts about nine additional times for various disorderly persons and lesser offenses.

In February 2010, he stood trial in Middlesex County on yet another indictment, this time charging two…