Legal Opinion
State v. Munafo
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided August 5, 2015PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rabner
After a fight at a club in Newark, defendant Elise Munafo ran over someone with a car and fled the scene. A jury convicted defendant of endangering a helpless victim, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1.2.
On appeal, defendant argued that the statute requires proof that a defendant’s flight increased the risk that further harm would come to the injured victim. Like the Appellate Division, we conclude that the statute does not include that element. We therefore affirm.
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The facts are taken from the record of defendant’s jury trial. On March 1, 2009, Erica Ortiz and a few friends went to the XL…
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