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State v. Shabazz

Citations

  • 622 A.2d 914
  • 263 N.J. Super. 246

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that the New Jersey Legislature would have prescribed the statute as “younger than” or “less than” if it actually intended to protect only those children under seventeen years of age
  • construing the phrase “[seventeen] years of age or younger” to include a child “who has attained the age of [seventeen] but has not yet reached his [eighteenth] birthday”
  • permitting a defendant to challenge a sentence's legality through a PCR petition
  • 17 years or younger synonymous with “under 18”

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Judges: Judges Michels, Baime and Wallace

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