NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE

APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION

SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY

APPELLATE DIVISION

DOCKET NO. A-1751-03T41751-03T4

STATE OF NEW JERSEY,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

ERNEST J. READ, III,

Defendant-Appellant.

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Submitted November 14, 2007 - Decided

Before Judges Skillman, Winkelstein and Yannotti.

On appeal from Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Monmouth County, Indictment No. 02-01-0101.

Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney for appellant (Diane Toscano, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the brief).

Luis A. Valentin, Monmouth County Prosecutor, attorney for respondent (Barry J. Serebnick, Assistant Prosecutor, of counsel and on the brief).

The opinion of the court was delivered by

SKILLMAN, P.J.A.D.

Defendant, who was then seventeen years old, was charged with acts of juvenile delinquency which, if committed by an adult, would constitute armed robbery, and various other offenses. The Family Part granted the prosecutor's motion to waive the charges to the Law Division under the 2000 amendment to N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-26, L. 1999, c. 373,