that identified defendant as the shooter. As we stated in Garber: The public itself has the greatest stake in the propriety of the legal relationships that are created to properly administer criminal justice____ Clearly, the public interest in the administration of criminal justice in the circumstances of this case compelled the unbiased and unstinted representation of [the witness]. [Garber, supra, 95 N.J. at 614, 472 A.2d 566 (quotation omitted).] In the context of this prosecution for a drug-related murder and other offenses, we are convinced that an appearance of impropriety existed where defendant’s counsel previously had represented on drug charges a material recanting State’s witness. Cucco’s and Posey’s failure to recall that prior representation or to recog .2d 1264 (1992)(<HOLDING>). Our dissenting colleague disagrees,
recognizing that wide discretion in imposition of sentence reposes in the trial judge recognizing the range of discretion of the trial judge recognizing that the trial judge must be given a wide range of discretion in determining whether a mistrial should be declared recognizing district courts wide range of discretion in setting amount of rule 11 sanctions holding that trial court has wide discretion in determining sufficiency of foundation for opinion testimony