STATE v. PERRY


124 N.J. 128 (1991)

590 A.2d 624

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. ARTHUR PERRY, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided May 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine F. Graham, Designated Counsel, and Mark H. Friedman, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant (Wilfredo Caraballo, Public Defender, attorney; Mark H. Friedman, Katherine F. Graham, and Patricia Anne Kern, Designated Counsel, of counsel and on the briefs).

Linda A. Rinaldi, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent (Robert J. Del Tufo, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).


The opinion of the Court was delivered by GARIBALDI, Justice.

On Thursday, February 27, 1986, Arthur Perry went to a second-floor bedroom of an apparently abandoned house at 762 Division Street in Camden, New Jersey, to inject himself with heroin. Jerome Redd, a fourteen-year-old acquaintance of Perry who often supplied Perry with drugs, entered that room before Perry could inject himself with the drugs. The ensuing encounter led to the death of Jerome Redd.

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