STATE v. TRENT


157 N.J. Super. 231 (1978)

384 A.2d 888

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. CURTIS E. TRENT, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided March 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alan Silber, designated counsel, argued the cause for appellant (Mr. Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Defender, attorney).

Mr. Kenneth P. Ply, Special Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for the respondent (Mr. John J. Degnan, Attorney General of New Jersey; Mr. William F. Hyland, former Attorney General of New Jersey and Mr. Leonard D. Ronco, Acting Essex County Prosecutor, of counsel).

Before Judges MICHELS, PRESSLER and BILDER.


The opinion of the court was delivered by PRESSLER, J.A.D.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of nine separate offenses arising out of his participation with two confederates in the armed robbery of a bank during which a bank guard and one of the confederates shot and killed each other. Following the return of the verdict, defendant was sentenced to consecutive life terms for the two felony murders and to concurrent...

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