Bill Text: NJ A3115 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits plea bargaining for certain repeat criminal offenders.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-08 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A3115 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3115-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3115

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 8, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  SAMUEL L. FIOCCHI

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits plea bargaining for certain repeat criminal offenders.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act prohibiting plea agreements for certain repeat criminal offenders and supplementing chapter 1 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  In any prosecution for a crime, a defendant shall not be permitted to negotiate, enter into, or submit any form of plea agreement, and a court shall not accept any plea agreement, if the defendant has been convicted of a crime on two or more separate occasions, unless the crime for which the defendant is currently being prosecuted was committed more than three years after:

     (1)   the date of the defendant's last release from confinement for the commission of either of the two most recent crimes; or

     (2)   the dates of the commission of the two most recent crimes for which the defendant has prior convictions.

     b.    For purposes of this section, prior convictions shall be defined and proven in accordance with N.J.S.2C:44-4. 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would prohibit plea bargaining for certain repeat criminal offenders.  Specifically, a defendant would not permitted to negotiate, enter into, or submit any form of plea agreement, and a court could not accept any plea agreement, if the defendant has been convicted of a crime on two or more separate occasions, unless the crime for which the defendant is currently being prosecuted was committed more than three years after:

     (1) the date of the defendant's last release from confinement for the commission of either of the two most recent crimes; or

     (2) the dates of the commission of the two most recent crimes for which the defendant has prior convictions.