STATE v. SESSOMS


187 N.J. Super. 625 (1982)

455 A.2d 595

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. WANDA SESSOMS, DEFENDANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Essex County.

Decided July 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Candido, Assistant Prosecutor, for the State (George L. Schneider, Essex County Prosecutor, attorney).

F. Michael Giles, for defendant.


VILLANUEVA, J.S.C.

This case involves the question whether a section of the new Code of Criminal Justice, N.J.S.A. 2C:1-11, prohibits state prosecution for a conspiracy and for substantive offenses when a defendant has been prosecuted in the federal court for earlier acts of that conspiracy. This court concludes that this statute is a bar to prosecution of the conspiracy count but not to those counts charging substantive offenses.

On September 2, 1981...

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