State v. Trent

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Clifford, J.

On Eebruary 11, 1976 a security guard and one of defendant’s confederates were killed in the course of an armed robbery of a bank. Defendant’s convictions for felony murder of the guard, on which he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and for various other offenses in connection with the same incident, for which he received lesser concurrent terms, were affirmed by the Appellate Division, State v. Trent, 157 N. J. Super. 231 (1978). However, on the strength of our decisions in State v. Canola, 73 N. J. 206 (1977), and State v. Alston, 73 N.…