State v. Friedman

Judge WEFING

(temporarily assigned) delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal we are called upon to consider whether the Appellate Division correctly applied the No Early Release Act, N.J.S.A 2C:43-7.2 (NERA), when it concluded that a defendant who has been sentenced to three consecutive terms under that statute serves the periods of post-release parole supervision that are part of a NERA sentence concurrently rather than consecutively. We conclude that the periods of parole supervision must be served consecutively and thus reverse the contrary determination of the Appellate Division.

We…