Supreme Court of New Jersey November 20, 2003 (State v. Natale)

PER CURIAM.

The judgment is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Conley’s opinion in the Appellate Division, reported at 348

N.J.Super.

625, 792 A.2d 565 (2002). We add only these brief comments.

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On remand, the State may elect not to proceed to a trial on a NERA predicate in which case the trial court must resentence defendant without application of NERA.