STATE v. TAPLIN


230 N.J. Super. 95 (1988)

552 A.2d 1015

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. RONALD TAPLIN, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided December 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred A. Slocum, Public Defender, attorney for appellant (Donald T. Thelander, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the brief).

W. Cary Edwards, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney for respondent (John J. Scaliti, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the letter brief).

Before Judges PRESSLER and SCALERA.


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

Following a jury trial defendant Ronald Taplin was convicted of theft in the fourth degree based on the allegation that he had assisted a friend, Eric Johnston, in stealing a television set from Johnston's mother by removing it during her absence from the house in which both Johnston and his mother lived. He was sentenced to an 18-month prison term.

On appeal defendant raises the following issues...

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