New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division December 8, 1988 (State v. Hopkins)

ARIEL A. RODRIGUEZ, J.S.C.

The material issue presented to the court is whether a person charged with a disorderly persons drug offense is entitled to a postponement of trial, for the duration of a codefendant’s period of suspended proceedings, when the codefendant’s expected testimony will be exculpatory.

The procedural background is not contested.