Guilty in car slay

Jacking at NJ mall

A New Jersey man was found guilty on all counts Friday for the shooting death of a lawyer in front of his horrified wife during a botched carjacking at a mall.

Jurors took more than two days to convict Basim Henry (bottom inset) on murder, felony murder, carjacking and other related charges in the death of attorney Dustin Friedland (inset right), 30, at The Mall at Short Hills.

Friedland’s parents, who were seated in the front row of the courtroom in Newark, remained stoic as the guilty verdicts were read.

Henry, 36, who served as the getaway driver and was charged along with three other men, faces up to life in prison.

Earlier this month, Friedland’s widow, Jamie, testified that the couple had taken a Range Rover to go shopping at the upscale Essex County mall on Dec. 15, 2013.

The two had just celebrated their wedding anniversary over dinner.

Jamie was waiting for her husband inside the SUV and, after turning around, watched the harrowing sit- uation as it unfolded.

Friedland, an attorney from Hoboken, was tussling with two men in the parking deck, she recalled.

Then Jamie was ordered out of the car.

“I knew — I just knew when I turned around what I was going to see,” Jamie tearfully said on the stand, NJ.com reported. “I saw Dustin lying in a pool of blood.”

The heartbroken woman recalled watching her husband die on the pavement.

“I leaned down . . . He was covered in his blood,” she said. “I’m screaming, ‘Stay with me, stay with me.’ ”

Friedland later died at a hospital. The vehicle was later recovered in Newark.

Henry was the first of four men tried in Friedland’s murder. The other three — Kevin Roberts, Hanif Thompson and Karif Ford — will be tried at a later date.

Henry’s lawyer, Michael Rubas, tried to convince jurors that although the South Orange man had a role in the carjacking, he didn’t pull the trigger.

But prosecutors maintained he was guilty of Friedland’s death regardless.