STATE v. HALSEY


218 N.J. Super. 149 (1987)

526 A.2d 1165

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. BYRON HALSEY, DEFENDANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Union County.

Decided March 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund J. Tucker and Eleanor Clark for plaintiff (John H. Stamler, Union County Prosecutor, attorney).

Joan Van Pelt and Dolores Delabar for defendant (Alfred A. Slocum, Public Defender, attorney).

Edward Lamb and Jack Sabatino for intervenor Newark Morning Ledger Company (Robinson, Wayne, Levin, Riccio & LaSala, attorneys).

Richard A. Ragsdale for intervenor The Courier News (Strauss & Hall, attorneys).

David Scott Mack for intervenor The Daily Journal (McGimpsey & Cafferty, attorneys).


WOLIN, J.S.C.

By the filing of certain aggravating factors the State has determined that defendant, Byron Halsey, is death eligible. He seeks to minimize the effect of pretrial publicity through closure of pretrial proceedings and enhancement of jury selection procedures. The focus of this opinion is the resolution of those issues within the framework of the basic contours recently sketched by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the cases of State v. Ramseur, ...

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