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STATE v. ORTIZ

938 A.2d 125 (2008)

193 N.J. 278

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Manuel B. ORTIZ, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided January 17, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy M. Van Hise, Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for appellant (Wayne J. Forrest, Somerset County Prosecutor, attorney).

John P. McDonald, Somerville, argued the cause for respondent (McDonald & Rogers, attorneys).

Justice RIVERA-SOTO delivered the opinion of the Court.

New Jersey's Code of Criminal Justice generally admits of two finite verdicts: guilty or not guilty. In the netherworld between these two findings, the Code also recognizes those instances where guilty acts in fact have occurred, but the accused, "at the time of such conduct[,] was laboring under such a defect of reason[] from disease of the mind as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing,...

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