The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the state attorney general is obligated to defend and indemnify the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office in a lawsuit involving a woman murdered by her ex-husband, a police officer.

The court will consider whether the prosecutor’s office, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni and three assistant prosecutors are entitled to a defense from the state pursuant to a 2001 Supreme Court decision, Wright v. State. In that case, the court said the state was found to be obligated to indemnify the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office in a wrongful arrest lawsuit.