
    738 A.2d 369
    STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. PAUL COLLIER, A/K/A PUFF, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
    Argued September 28, 1999
    Derided October 28, 1999.
    
      Charles Ouslander, Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for appellant (Daniel G. Giaquinto, Mercer County Prosecutor, attorney; Mr. Ouslander and Kimberly M. Lachen, Assistant Prosecutor, of counsel and on the briefs).
    
      Mark H. Friedman, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for respondent (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney).
    
      
      Bennett A Barlyn, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for amicus curiae Attorney General of New Jersey (John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General, attorney).
    
      Eric Tunis argued the cause for amicus curiae Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey.
   PER CURIAM.

The judgment is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Steinberg’s opinion of the Appellate Division, reported at 316 N.J.Super. 181, 719 A.2d 1276 (1998).

For affirmance — Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices O’HERN, GARIBALDI, STEIN, COLEMAN, VERNIERO, and LONG — 7.

Opposed — None.  