State v. Smith

Judge WEFING

(temporarily assigned) delivered the opinion of the Court.

Shortly before 5:30 p.m. on December 31, 2001, Robert Priester was shot to death while sitting in his automobile in the parking lot of the M & M Deli in Ewing, New Jersey. Defendant was charged with murdering Priester, and a jury found him guilty. The trial court sentenced him to serve thirty years in prison, subject to the parole ineligibility provisions of N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.2. The Appellate Division affirmed defendant’s conviction and sen*374tence in an unpublished opinion. Before this Court defendant contends that the police…