Administrative Director of the Courts Glenn Grant/photo by Carmen Natale
With in-person grand jury proceedings on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey’s judiciary announced a pilot program to hold virtual grand jury proceedings via Zoom video conference technology in Bergen and Mercer counties.
The two-county rollout could be followed by expansion of the program elsewhere in the state. Authorized by a state Supreme Court order issued Thursday, the pilot program was recommended by a court committee on remote grand jury operations as a first step toward restarting parts of the criminal justice process that were stalled by COVID-19, Administrative Director of the Courts Glenn Grant said in a notice to the bar.
