STATE v. PATTON


826 A.2d 783 (2003)

362 N.J. Super. 16

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Ronald PATTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided July 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Seelenfreund, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant (Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney; Mr. Seelenfreund, of counsel and on the brief).

Mark Paul Cronin, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent (Peter C. Harvey, Acting Attorney General, attorney; Lisa Sarnoff Gochman, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the brief).

John C. Whipple argued the cause for amicus curiae Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, (Mr. Whipple and Mary Gibbons Whipple, on the brief).

Before Judges CONLEY, CARCHMAN and PARRILLO.


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

During the early morning hours of August 10, 1998, police found the lifeless body of Gloria Deen Hoke in an alley in Camden. In the early evening of the same day, the Camden police, acting on an anonymous tip of a "man with a gun," stopped, searched and arrested defendant Ronald Patton on a weapons offense and took him to police headquarters. During the ensuing nineteen hours between the time of defendant...

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