State v. W.A.

DONOHUE, J.S.C.

*389This case presents the court with an issue of first impression in New Jersey. Namely, whether, after a defendant has been detained pretrial, a later defense attack on the State's detention hearing proffer can be sufficient to reopen the detention hearing.

The court finds that a defendant may not reopen a detention hearing in order to present more developed arguments to mount a late attack on the State's proffer regarding probable cause and the court's finding of probable cause, where the bases for those arguments were known to defendant at the time of the detention hearing. This…