STATE v. PENNINGTON


712 A.2d 1133 (1998)

154 N.J. 344

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James D. PENNINGTON, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas P. Ruggiero, Assistant Prosecutor, for plaintiff-appellant (Robert W. Gluck, Middlesex County Prosecutor, attorney).

Robert L. Sloan, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, for defendant-respondent (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney).

Bennett A. Barlyn, Deputy Attorney General, for amicus curiae, Attorney General of New Jersey (Peter Verniero, Attorney General, attorney).


The opinion of the Court was delivered by COLEMAN, J.

The important issues raised in this appeal are whether life imprisonment is the presumptive extended term requiring twenty-five years of parole ineligibility for a persistent offender convicted of first-degree kidnapping and whether a rejected plea offer may be considered by an appellate court when determining the excessiveness of sentences. The Appellate Division did...

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