STATE v. MEROLA


838 A.2d 470 (2003)

365 N.J. Super. 82

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Thomas MEROLA, Defendant-Appellant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided December 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Merola, appellant pro se.

Paula T. Dow, Acting Essex County Prosecutor, for respondent (Kenneth P. Ply, Special Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges CUFF, WINKELSTEIN and LARIO.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant appeals from the denial of his second petition for post-conviction relief. He is serving a thirty-year term for murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault. We affirm.

In this second petition for post-conviction relief,1 defendant contends that during his 1984 trial, the trial judge erred when he failed to instruct the jury on the issue of causation consistent with N.J.S.A. 2C:2-3b and erred when he...

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