State v. Brown

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

STEIN, J.

In January 1993, a Warren County jury convicted defendant, Bobby Lee Brown, of two counts of purposeful or knowing murder in the deaths of Alice Skov and her brother John Bell. It also convicted Brown on felony-murder, robbery, weapon-possession, and conspiracy charges. Because the jury found that Brown had committed the homicides “by his own conduct,” N.J.SA. 2C:ll-3e, a penalty-phase hearing followed the jury’s verdict in the guilt phase of the trial. At the penalty phase, the same jury unanimously found in respect of the murder of Alice…