Legal Opinion
State v. Zola
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided October 7, 1988PublishedCited by 218 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, J.
This is a pre-Ramseur/Biegenwald capital case in which the defendant was sentenced to death. In State v. Biegenwald, 106 N.J. 13 (1987), appeal after remand, 110 N.J. 521 (1988), and State v. Ramseur, 106 N.J. 123 (1987), we determined the constitutionality of New Jersey’s capital punishment act, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3, and established standards for its application. In this case, tried before those decisions, the jury charge failed to comply with the Biegenwald requirement that to impose the death penalty the jury must be convinced beyond a…
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