Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem of Galloway Township pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges last fall and has been held on $2.7 million bail.
Abdur-Raheem was present for a court conference Monday in New Brunswick but did not speak. The defense did not say what it would seek for a new bail amount.
Prosecutors claim Abdur-Raheem abducted Zara Malani-lin Abdur from her grandmother's East Orange apartment in February 2010, assaulting the woman and then hitting her with his van. He then allegedly parked on the Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway and threw or dropped the baby into the river. The baby was found several weeks later along the riverbank.
