State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Ulious Lee Green and Jesse Green, Defendants-Appellants

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the convictions and sentences for possession of a dangerous knife for both defendants, holding that the statute’s term “dangerous knife” includes folding knives when the purpose is to use them as a weapon and that the trial judge’s jury instruction was deficient. The Court affirmed the remaining convictions and sentences, and clarified that a sentencing judge may consider prior arrests listed in a presentence report so long as no inference of guilt is drawn from arrests that did not result in conviction.