NJ A665

Courts may impose any combination of monetary bail and non-monetary release conditions when prosecutors do not seek pretrial detention, regardless of existing court rules or directives to the contrary

Defendants and prosecutors gain an explicit right to request monetary bail conditions and receive due consideration from the court

Expands the rebuttable presumption of pretrial detention to include defendants charged with first or second degree violent crimes, beyond the current standard limited to murder and life imprisonment offenses

Violent crimes triggering the new detention presumption include aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, carjacking, aggravated arson, burglary, terrorism, and firearms trafficking

Takes effect 90 days after enactment and amends New Jersey's 2014 bail reform law (P.L.2014, c.31)