Healthy New Jersey

Office of the Public Defender

OPD Files Another Order to Show Cause in the NJ Supreme Court

OPD has filed an OTSC seeking the release of certain pretrial detainees who have been in jail for over 6 months and are charged with second degree or lesser offenses. Jury trials have been suspended indefinitely and, at some point, the system cannot allow indefinite pretrial detention.


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