Nothing new that I can see, unfortunately. If you message me the Facebook link, I can try!
The court site does not share any case information, unfortunately.
I can find no recent articles, either.
MSM from 5/13/2019 -- don't know if these players are still on this case:
Previously: Paul Caneiro pleads not guilty to all charges
Defense attorneys were expected to discuss what motions they intend to file in the case during a conference Monday before Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Oxley. Instead, Patrice Bearden, a deputy assistant public defender who is representing Caneiro, told Oxley she just received 1,172 pages of additional investigative reports from prosecutors late Friday and she needs time to go through them before deciding what motions to file.
Christopher Decker, an assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, said he still has about 950 documents to turn over to the defense "as a result of a financial investigation that's been ongoing."
3/22/24
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So according to this:
ORDERED that the temporary stay previously imposed during the pendency of defendant’s application is hereby vacated.
So - his appeal was vacated - do I have the correct? Are we waiting for that Daubert hearing or not? Legalese always gets me...
A hearing on the scientific reliability of the technology was scheduled to take place during the weeks of Feb. 26 and March 4, but the hearing has not yet happened because the defense sought to expand the proceeding to consider additional DNA samples beyond those that were originally analyzed with the new technology.
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At Tuesday's conference, attorneys discussed making arrangements for the defense expert to examine the software utilized by the state police lab.
Oxley scheduled a conference in the case for April 8 to discuss scheduling the pretrial hearing on the STRmix software.
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Oxley said it’s likely however he rules in the pretrial hearing, his ruling will be appealed. The outcome will have statewide implications.
Mar. 27, 2023MARCH 27, 2024
FREEHOLD - Paul J. Caneiro's trial in the Colts Neck mansion murders of his brother's family was scheduled to begin in June, but because of delays in a crucial, pretrial hearing, the start of the trial is expected to be pushed back into the summer.
Caneiro, 57, of Ocean Township, has been in jail five years, four months and seven days awaiting trial in the November 2018 murders of his brother, sister-in-law, and the couple's two young children, Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Oxley said at a conference in the case on Tuesday.
Despite that, Deputy Assistant Public Defender Michael Wicke told the judge at the conference that Caneiro's June 3 trial date is not a realistic one.
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The only thing standing in the way of a trial is a pretrial hearing on the admissibility of DNA evidence that was analyzed using cutting edge technology that has not yet been declared scientifically reliable in a New Jersey court.
A hearing on the scientific reliability of the technology was scheduled to take place during the weeks of Feb. 26 and March 4, but the hearing has not yet happened because the defense sought to expand the proceeding to consider additional DNA samples beyond those that were originally analyzed with the new technology.
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At Tuesday's conference, attorneys discussed making arrangements for the defense expert to examine the software utilized by the state police lab.
Oxley scheduled a conference in the case for April 8 to discuss scheduling the pretrial hearing on the STRmix software.
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Oxley said it’s likely however he rules in the pretrial hearing, his ruling will be appealed. The outcome will have statewide implications.
"That will take us into the heart of the summer - July or August,'' Oxley said, referring to the trial.