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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-4-908

Program operation

Acts 2013, No. 1340, § 1; 2015, No. 1198, § 4; 2019, No. 910, § 134.

(1) A pre-adjudication probation program may require a separate judicial processing system differing in practice and design from the traditional adversarial criminal prosecution and trial systems.

(2) A pre-adjudication probation program team shall be designated by a circuit judge assigned to manage the pre-adjudication probation program docket and may include a circuit judge, a prosecuting attorney, a public defender or private defense attorney, one (1) or more probation officers, and any other individual or individuals determined necessary by the pre-adjudication probation program judge.

(3) The administrative judge of the judicial district shall designate one (1) or more circuit judges to administer the pre-adjudication probation program.

(4) If a county is in a judicial district that does not have a circuit judge who is able to administer the pre-adjudication probation program on a consistent basis, the administrative plan for the judicial circuit required by Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14 may designate a state district court judge to administer the pre-adjudication probation program.

(5) Each judicial district may develop a training and implementation manual for a pre-adjudication probation program with the assistance of: The Department of Human Services;

(6) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education;

(7) The Adult Education Section;

(8) The Division of Community Correction;

(9) The Administrative Office of the Courts; and

(10) Any vocational school, technical school, community college, or two-year and four-year public university that has volunteered to be part of the pre-adjudication program in the judicial district.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.