NJ A119

Creates a rebuttable presumption for pretrial detention of defendants charged with motor vehicle theft when the theft involved conduct that caused death, serious bodily injury, or substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person

Adds motor vehicle theft with aggravating circumstances to the list of crimes where prosecutors can seek pretrial detention, alongside murder and crimes carrying life imprisonment

Defendants can rebut the detention presumption by presenting a preponderance of evidence that release conditions would reasonably assure public safety

Amends New Jersey's Criminal Justice Reform Act (P.L.2014, c.31) to expand pretrial detention authority for violent motor vehicle thefts

Defines "serious bodily injury" as injury creating substantial risk of death, serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of bodily function