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IN RE PROPORTIONALITY REVIEW PROJECT

757 A.2d 168 (2000)

165 N.J. 206

In re PROPORTIONALITY REVIEW PROJECT (II).

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided August 2, 2000.

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).

Catherine A. Foddai, 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, submitted a brief 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 PORITZ, C.J.

This matter completes the second phase in a two-part review of the Court's proportionality review procedures undertaken pursuant to our Order in State v. Loftin, 157 N.J. 253, 454-55, 724 A.2d 129 (Loftin II), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 120 S.Ct. 229, 145 L. Ed.2d 193 (1999).

In Loftin II, the Court found that the proportionality...

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