
    747 A.2d 1248
    STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. VERNON GREEN, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
    Argued February 29, 2000
    Decided April 10, 2000.
    
      Sylvia M. Orenstein, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney).
    
      Christine M. D’Elia, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent (John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).
   PER CURIAM.

Based on the partial dissent filed in the Appellate Division and reported at 318 N.J.Super. 361, 382, 724 A.2d 254 (1999), defendant filed an appeal as of right pursuant to Rule 2:2-l(a)(2). In respect of that appeal, the judgment of the Appellate Division is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Stein-berg’s majority opinion, reported at 318 N.J.Super. 361, 724 A.2d 254 (1999).

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

Opposed — None.  