State v. Baylass

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

POLLOCK, J.

Pursuant to a plea agreement, defendant, John Baylass, was convicted of three counts of forgery and was placed on probation. He violated the terms of his probation, and the trial court converted defendant’s status from non-incarceration to incarceration for four and one-half years with a parole disqualifier of two years and three months.

The Appellate Division affirmed the sentence after hearing the matter as part of the Excessive Sentence Oral Argument Program. We granted defendant’s petition for certification, 111 N.J. 561 (1988), and now…