Prosecutors must provide defendants with extensive discovery if they are seeking to have those defendants held without bail before trial under New Jersey’s new bail reform system, a state appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

In a published opinion in State v. Robinson, a three-judge Appellate Division panel rejected arguments made by prosecutors that they should only be required to provide a probable cause affidavit and a preliminary investigative report.

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