STATE v. MOLINARO


117 N.J. Super. 276 (1971)

284 A.2d 385

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. MARIO MOLINARO, ROCCO CICCHETTI, EMANUEL MONTALBANO, PETER VERDICCHIO, AND ROCCO MAURIELLO, DEFENDANTS. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. ANTHONY DE PASQUE, ROSE MARIE RENNA, PETER CARLO, FRANK GRAZIANO, SHIRLEY HUDSON, JOHN F. INGUAGGIATTO, DEFENDANTS. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. RICHARD PTAKOWSKI, ROBERT PIERSON, ROBERT J. CREMEN, FRED HERZOG, JOSEPH HOLLINGER, AND JOSEPH GARCIA, DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County Court, Law Division (Criminal).

Decided November 24, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Richard B. McGlynn, Deputy Attorney General, appeared for plaintiff (Mr. George F. Kugler, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Mr. John P. Russell, appeared for defendant Mario Molinaro (Messrs. Russell & McAlevy, attorneys).

Mr. Frank A. Paglianite, appeared for defendant Rocco Cicchetti.

Mr. Harvey Weissbard, appeared for defendant Emanuel Montalbano (Messrs. Querques, Isles & Weissbard, attorneys).

Mr. Elmer J. Herrmann, Jr., appeared for defendants Peter Verdicchio and Rocco Mauriello (Messrs. Blasi & Herrmann, attorneys).

Mr. James G. Leonardson, appeared for defendants Frank Graziano and Robert Cremen (Messrs. Stein, Bliablias & Goldman, attorneys).

Mr. Gerald Goldman, appeared for defendant Shirley Hudson (Messrs. Goldman, Carlet & Garrison, attorneys).

Mr. Charles K. Kurebanas, appeared for defendant John F. Inguaggiatto.

Mr. Donald Friedman, Assistant Deputy Public Defender appeared for defendant Richard Ptakowski (Mr. Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Defender, attorney).

Mr. Anthony P. Peduto, appeared for defendant Robert Pierson.

Mr. Thomas C. Brown, appeared for defendant Fred Herzog.

Mr. Joseph G. Dooley, Jr., appeared for defendant Joseph Garcia (Thomas E. Durkin, Jr., attorney).


HANDLER, J.S.C. (temporarily assigned).

These are three groups of cases (referred to herein as the Molinaro case, the Ptakowski case and the De Pasque case) in which defendants stand indicted by the State Grand Jury for various gambling offenses. Evidence was obtained through the interception of telephonic communications by the New Jersey State Police under the New Jersey Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, L. 1968, c. 409; N.J.S...

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