Three Strikes and Habitual Offender Laws in New Jersey

Yes. New Jersey's 'three strikes' law requires life imprisonment without parole for a person convicted of murder, aggravated manslaughter, first-degree kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault (listed forms), robbery or carjacking who has two or more prior convictions, on separate occasions, for any of those crimes (or substantially equivalent crimes elsewhere). A person convicted of a listed second- or third-degree violent crime (such as second-degree robbery, second-degree burglary or aggravated assault) with two or more prior convictions for listed violent crimes must receive an extended term under 2C:43-7. The law applies only if the new crime was committed within 10 years of the last release from confinement or of the most recent prior crime, and only after a hearing on written notice. 'Life' means natural life, but a person 70 or older who has served at least 35 years must be paroled if the full Parole Board finds the person is not a danger.