STATE v. LAWLOR


222 N.J. Super. 241 (1988)

536 A.2d 766

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. LAWRENCE LAWLOR, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided January 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mordecai Garelick, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant (Alfred A. Slocum, Public Defender, attorney; Mordecai Garelick, of counsel and on the letter brief).

Cathleen Russo Delanoy, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent (W. Cary Edwards, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Cathleen Russo Delanoy, of counsel and on the letter brief).

Before Judges BRODY, LONG and SCALERA.


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

We are again called upon to interpret the meaning of N.J.S.A. 2C:44-5b(2) (the statute) because of the need for clarification that we noted in State v. Alevras, 213 N.J.Super. 331, 339, n. 2 (App.Div. 1986). The statute entitles a defendant being sentenced to imprisonment to credit for time served under an unrelated previous custodial sentence where the...

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