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IN RE PROPORTIONALITY REV. PROJECT

735 A.2d 528 (1999)

161 N.J. 71

In re PROPORTIONALITY REVIEW PROJECT.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided August 5, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia Van Wyk, Deputy Public Defender II, and Mordecai D. Garelick, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause on behalf of the Office of the Public Defender (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney).

Paul H. Heinzel, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause on behalf of the Attorney General of New Jersey (John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General, attorney).

Lawrence S. Lustberg, Newark, argued the cause on behalf of amici curiae Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey and New Jersey State Conference of NAACP Branches (Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, attorneys).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by O'HERN, J.

When the United States Supreme Court restored the constitutionality of the death penalty, it imposed a concomitant obligation on states to provide "the further safeguard of meaningful appellate review" of every death sentence. Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 195, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2935, 49 L.Ed.2d 859, 887 (1976). This matter...

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