Supreme Court of New Jersey· 7/8/1997

State v. Norman

Citations

697 A.2d 511
151 N.J. 5
1997 N.J. LEXIS 196

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ruling a potential conflict \must be evaluated and . . . a great likelihood of prejudice must be shown . . . to establish constitutionally defective representation of counsel\
stating that an accomplice liability charge was not warranted because the evidence did not permit the jury \to conclude that defendants fired the shots or aided in the firing of the shots with anything less than homicide in mind\
“jury instructions on accomplice liability must include an instruction that a defendant can be found guilty as an accomplice of a lesser included offense even though the principal is found guilty of the more serious offense.”
“it [was], at best, a remote possibility that the [jury was] distracted from [its] task by a conclusion that the principal had possessed a more culpable intent than the accomplice” where the defendant was tried alone
refusing to create an unworkable rule

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Judges: Handler, Stein

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