On Monday, November 22, 1982, Amie woke early but did not go to school because of menstrual cramps. Amie then returned to Karyn's house and remained until about 11:00 p.m., when a high school classmate who had been at the Firehouse dinner drove her home. Speak, Karyn's mother, to the hospital, and remained there for about ninety minutes while Karyn was treated. At the firehouse, there occurred an accident that forced Karyn Speak to seek emergency medical treatment at the hospital. At the conclusion of the football game, Day drove his friends to the Rainbow Lakes Firehouse in Intervale, where a spaghetti dinner took place in honor of the school's cheerleaders and football players. her childhood friend and fellow cheerleader, Karyn Speak, arrived and drove Amie to Timothy Day's home, where with a group of friends she watched a football game on television. Testimony at trial established that Amie's life for the few days prior to her death was relatively uneventful. Other medical evidence established that she died approximately three to four hours after she left the mall. Medical evidence submitted at trial indicated that Amie had been the victim of a sexual assault. Amie Hoffman had been stabbed several times, receiving a wound to the chest, which caused her to bleed to death. Two days later on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, *232 1982, the police discovered her body floating face-down in a water retention tank located in a wooded and secluded area of Randolph Township. on November 23, 1982, shortly after she left work as she walked toward her car in the parking lot of the Morris County Mall. She was last seen alive at aproximately 9:30 p.m. She was employed part-time at the Surprise Store in the Morris County Mall. In November 1982, Amie Hoffman was an eighteen-year-old senior and a cheerleader at Parsippany Hills High School. The Disappearance, Discovery of the Body, Investigation, and Arrest Because the trial court failed to instruct the jury properly in the sentencing phase, however, we must reverse the sentence of death and remand for a new sentencing procedure.Ī. He appeals directly to this Court as of right. Koedatich, for the murder of Amie Hoffman and sentenced him to death. In October 1984, a Morris County jury convicted the defendant, James J. The opinion of the Court was delivered by GARIBALDI, J. Cary Edwards, Attorney General, attorney).Įric Neisser argued the cause for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. Foddai, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for amicus curiae Attorney General of New Jersey (W. Trumbull, Morris County Prosecutor, attorney).Ĭatherine A. Joseph Connor, Jr., Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for respondent (Lee S. Barrett, Designated Counsel, argued the cause for appellant (Alfred A. JAMES JEROLD KOEDATICH, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,
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