State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Sylvester Johnson, Stanley Cassidy and Wayne Godfrey…

Summary

The New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's denial of the defendants' motion for a new trial, rejecting claims of juror bias, involuntary confessions, suppression of evidence, constitutional infirmity of the sentencing statute, and entitlement to new evidence under State v. Mount. The court held that the alleged newly discovered evidence was not truly new, the confessions were voluntary, the sentencing statute was constitutional, and the trial court exercised proper discretion.