SYLLABUS

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State v. Adams (A-103-06); State v. Comer (A-116-06)

Argued October 23, 2007 -- Decided March 26, 2008

WALLACE, JR., J., writing for the Court.

In these cases, which are consolidated for purposes of the opinion, the issues are: (1) whether the trial court should have excluded the out-of-court and in-court identifications of defendants Ibn Adams and James Comer; (2) whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury on how to consider the testimony and guilty plea of co-defendant Dexter Harrison; and (3) whether defendants’ sentences violated the principles of State v. Natale, 184 N.J. 458 (2005).