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STATE v. WAKEFIELD

921 A.2d 954 (2007)

190 N.J. 397

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Brian WAKEFIELD, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided May 7, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay L. Wilensky and Mark H. Friedman, Assistant Deputy Public Defenders, argued the cause for appellant (Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney; Mr. Wilensky and Robert A. Seelenfreund, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the briefs).

Kristen M. Harberg, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent (Peter C. Harvey, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Roy B. Greenman, Union, argued the cause for amicus curiae, Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (Budin, Greenman & Greenman, attorneys).

Justice RIVERA-SOTO delivered the opinion of the Court.

Defendant Brian Wakefield pled guilty to two counts of capital murder and eleven other offenses arising out of the home-invasion robbery, assault, and murder of seventy-year-old Richard Hazard and his sixty-four-year-old wife Shirley Hazard in their Pleasantville, New Jersey home on January 18, 2001. At his penalty phase trial, a jury unanimously found all of the aggravating...

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