The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Court has ruled that the state owes evidence related to the wiretap in former Bayonne Assemblyman Jason O’Donnell’s complicated 2018 bribery case when he took $10,000 cash while running for mayor. Defendant did not win the election,” Appellate Court judges Greta Gooden Brown, Patrick DeAlmeida, and Ellen Torregrossa-O’Connor began in a 36-page decision released Thursday morning. In March 2020, Jason O’Donnell rejected a five-year plea deal offer from the state, with Hudson County Superior Court Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez dismissing the bribery charge in June 2021 for the aforementioned reason outlined by the appellate court. That charge was reinstated by the appellate court in June 2022, a decision upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court in August 2023, and the case has largely been stuck in quicksand due to procedural and discovery issues the appellate court ruled on today. “The State argues internal communications concerning an investigation are ‘generally shielded from discovery as work product’ and ‘reflect deliberations concerning prosecutorial policies regarding investigations.’