State v. Roach

I dissent from the majority’s conclusion that there should be a remand to determine whether Roach’s sentence is unjustifiably disparate when compared with that of co-defendant Jackson. Ante at 233, 680 A.2d at 646.

*235I begin with the recognition that “[t]he paramount goal of sentencing reform [under the Code] was greater uniformity.” State v. Roth, 95 N.J. 334, 369, 471 A.2d 370 (1984).

State v. Yarbough, 100 N.J. 627, 498 A.2d 1239 (1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1014, 106 S.Ct. 1193, 89 L.Ed.2d 308 (1986), sought to make sentencing uniform by requiring that the aggregate custodial sentence…