State v. Roy Friedman (066332; A-18/19-10)
When a defendant has been sentenced to consecutive custodial terms under NERA, the periods of parole supervision that follow must be served consecutively. There is no need to determine whether Hess applies here because the trial court recognized its inherent sentencing authority, engaged in its own Yarbough analysis, and did not abuse its discretion in concluding that it was appropriate to impose consecutive sentences for three separate assaults defendant admitted committing upon his wife during three separate periods of time. 1-24-12
