On July 3rd, according to the online NJ courts public access the judge passed sentence on the defendant. The jury that I was on, out of the 8 counts, convicted the defendant of 2 counts. One count of 2nd degree aggravated assault and one count of 2nd degree eluding. Very difficult to read the online system but it looks like the defendant had 216 jail days as a result of not making bail and was sentenced to 5 years by the judge. Don’t see anything about the jail time going towards time served or parole or probation…
I believe for what we learned that the defendant appeared to have done, I’m satisfied that justice was served. I feel bad for the two women that didn’t want to convict the defendant of anything as I’m sure if they learn of the sentence they are going to be devastated.
I’ll probably check the records in another month to see if there are any updates.
Tim Hitchings 