TOMS RIVER, NJ – A murder suspect who was recently reincarcerated for violating his terms of pre-trial release is about to be released again by Superior Court Judge Lourdes Lucas. Marcus Morrisey was arrested for murder after he and two others used a stun gun on 43-year-old dad Randolph Goodman in 2018. The three men then shot and killed Goodman.
Morrisey, of Toms River, is facing a murder charge in Monmouth County.
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He was released by Judge Lucas under certain conditions but violated that release order on his first day out of jail with an ankle bracelet for driving near the home of a ‘victim or witness’.
An alert was issued and he was ordered back to jail the same day. His attorney said he simply stopped to get gas, grab food at McDonald’s, and visited his sister when he was supposed to drive from his house, directly to his attorney’s office and back.
He was buying a Happy Meal for his 12-year-old son, according to his attorney.
Morrisey was sent back to jail, but now Judge Lucas is ready to set him free again with even stricter conditions, saying his violation was not enough to permanently revoke his pre-trial release under New Jersey’s Bail Reform Act of 2017.