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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 5 - Criminal Offenses
Subtitle 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 4 - Disposition of Offenders
Subchapter 9 - Sentencing Alternative -- Pre-Adjudication Probation
§ 5-4-908. Program operation
Universal Citation: AR Code § 5-4-908 (2017)
- (a)
- (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)
- (A) The administrative judge of the judicial district shall designate one (1) or more circuit judges to administer the pre-adjudication probation program.
- (B) 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 Administrative Order No. 14 of the Supreme Court may designate a state district court judge to administer the pre-adjudication probation program.
- (b) Each judicial district may develop a training and implementation manual for a pre-adjudication probation program with the assistance of:
- (1) The Department of Human Services;
- (2) The Department of Education;
- (3) The Department of Career Education;
- (4) The Department of Community Correction;
- (5) The Administrative Office of the Courts; and
- (6) 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.
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