Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1/18/1989

State v. Gardner

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551 A.2d 981
113 N.J. 510
1989 N.J. LEXIS 1

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holding that general deterrence alone was not enough to overcome the presumption against imprisonment for a first offense
“ ‘[T]he need to deter’ ... encompasses two types of deterrence: deterring (a) ‘the defendant’ and (b) ‘others’ from committing crime.”
\[A] sentence imposed by a trial court is not to be upset on appeal unless it represents an abuse of the lower court's discretion.\

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