STATE v. BURGESS


712 A.2d 631 (1998)

154 N.J. 181

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lloyd BURGESS, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 10, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Hulett, Deputy Attorney General, for plaintiff-appellant (Peter Verniero, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Salvatore C. Adamo, Phillipsburg, for defendant-respondent.

J. Michael Blake, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, for amicus curiae, the Office of the Public Defender (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney).


PER CURIAM.

Defendant seeks post-conviction relief from his 1990 conviction as a "leader of a narcotics trafficking network" under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-3, which has come to be known as the drug kingpin statute. The trial court sentenced defendant on that count to life imprisonment with twenty-five years of parole ineligibility. Defendant was also convicted on two counts of second-degree and six counts of third-degree drug distribution. The trial court sentenced him...

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