STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. TALADEEN ROSS, ET AL.
A-3026-13T4/A-5460-13T4 (CONSOLIDATED)
During the pretrial stage of this criminal prosecution, the trial judge entered orders pursuant to a motion filed by the Public Defender's Office directing a non-party – the County of Middlesex – to provide the means by which defendants incarcerated in the county jail could accept, access and examine electronic discovery. Although the court agreed with the County that these criminal proceedings did not present an adequate framework for granting relief against a non-party and although the court also determined that the judge should not have further entertained these matters once the County filed an appeal, the court concluded that the appeal had been rendered moot because the County complied with the orders in question and any ruling the court may make in reviewing the orders would have no practical bearing on the parties at this time.
