State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Alison Towey, Defendant-Appellant

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the Appellate Division and remanded for resentencing, holding that the Graves Act does not grant unlimited discretion to impose the maximum parole ineligibility term and that the trial court erred by imposing a base term at the bottom of the presumptive range without a clear finding that mitigating factors outweighed aggravating factors, by failing to reconcile the parole ineligibility term with the base term, and by refusing credit for time voluntarily spent in a psychiatric hospital.