The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday reiterated the mandate that prosecutors must release all exculpatory information to criminal defendants before pretrial hearings, and set guidelines for situations in which judges should reopen detention proceedings.

In a unanimous ruling in State v. Hyppolite, the court said a defendant facing a murder trial—and who was ordered held without bail pending that trial—should be afforded a new detention hearing because his attorney was not initially provided with conflicting witness statements.

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