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STATE v. BURFORD

746 A.2d 998 (2000)

163 N.J. 16

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William BURFORD, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided March 14, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary A. Thomas, Special Deputy Attorney General, for plaintiff-appellant (Donald C. Campolo, Assistant Attorney General, Acting Essex County Prosecutor, attorney).

Jacqueline E. Turner, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, for defendant-respondent (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney).

Russell J. Curley, Deputy Attorney General, for amicus curiae, Attorney General of New Jersey (John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General, attorney).

PER CURIAM.

The central question in this appeal is whether defendant's second-degree eluding conviction qualifies as a "violent crime" subjecting defendant's sentence to the eighty-five percent minimum term of the "No Early Release Act" (NERA or the Act), N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.2. Not before us are any constitutional challenges to the Act. The specific question is whether defendant's use of a stolen automobile to elude police...

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