A Superior Court judge sentenced him to 9 years in prison. Now, three years later, an appellate panel ordered that conviction overturned and a new trial be set.
The story of what happened to Toms River native Dustin Friedland while returning from a shopping trip to the Short Hills Mall is going to raise an awful lot of questions like, “do we need to bring back the death penalty?”; and “should we be allowed to carry concealed weapons...