MANCHESTER – A Superior Court judge Tuesday granted a motion to extend the proceedings in the second-degree murder case of Bryson Peluso, the Amherst man charged in the shooting death of an acquaintance early Thanksgiving morning.

Judge Lawrence Smukler, at a roughly 15-minute status hearing in Hillsborough County Superior Court North, agreed to give Peluso’s new lawyer, Sven D. Wiberg, enough time to review the discovery material that was recently passed on to him from Peluso’s former attorney.

“This is a process in which all the discovery materials are transferred to the new attorney from the former attorney,” Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley, the prosecutor, said after the hearing.

The parties also agreed to continue, or move farther out, the time frame in which they will present the case to the grand jury.

Typically, Hinckley said, the lawyers must bring the case to the grand jury within 90 days of the defendant’s arrest. For Peluso, who was arrested Nov. 22, the original deadline would have been Feb. 19, but a judge granted an extension in January.

It’s not yet clear when the parties will go to the grand jury, but the court, following Tuesday’s hearing, scheduled another status hearing for July 19.

A large contingent of onlookers, the majority of them believed to be family members and supporters of Brandon Kluz, the 23-year-old victim, attended Tuesday’s hearing.

At the conclusion of the hearing, a group of people there on behalf of Peluso left the courtroom and followed Wiberg into a nearby meeting room to discuss the proceedings.

Hinckley, meanwhile, said that once Peluso is indicted, his office will contact Wiberg to “try to work out some dates for trial.”

It was just past midnight Thanksgiving morning when Amherst police and ambulance personnel were called to a home at 19 Baboosic Lake Road.

Upon arrival, they were met with several people who told them someone had been shot inside the house.

Police and paramedics located a young man, later identified as Kluz, who had a gunshot wound to the chest. Attempts to revive him failed, and he was later pronounced dead.

Not long afterward, police arrested Peluso, then 27, on one count of second-degree murder. At his arraignment the following day in a Nashua courtroom, Judge Charles Temple ordered Peluso held without bail.

Troopers assigned to the state police Major Crime Unit arrived at the scene later Thanksgiving morning to assist local police in the investigation.

The next day, state Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jennie Duval conducted an autopsy on Kluz, and ruled a gunshot wound to the chest caused his death.