State v. Johnson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

*13POLLOCK, J.

The companion case, State v. Jabbour, holds that the presumption of imprisonment for first- and second-degree offenses applies to a defendant who commits a sex offense unless the circumstances of the offender are so extraordinary and unanticipated that imprisonment would not serve the legislative purposes of punishment and deterrence. 118 N.J. 1, 6, 570 A.2d 391. In Jabbour, we further held that defendant’s physical and psychiatric condition did not distinguish him from other sex offenders and that imprisonment would not be a serious…