State v. Hudson

In this appeal, and in its companion, State v. McDonald, 209 N.J. 78, 35 A.3d 669 (2012), separately conducted sentencing proceedings resulted in sentences that imposed, in their aggregate, multiple extended-term sentences. Previously, in State v. *517Papasavvas1 and State v. Pennington,2 we addressed N.J.S.A. 2C:44-5(a)(l)’s prohibition against sentencing a defendant to multiple extended terms in a single sentencing proceeding. In this appeal, we address, for the first time, the import of N.J.S.A. 2C:44-5(b)(l)’s incorporation of subsection a’s prohibitions to certain offenses and sentencing…