Rule 30a-2. Pretrial Conference

(a) When counsel is requested, or responsibility is denied, the case may be continued for a pretrial conference. At the pretrial, the parties may agree that a substitute information will be filed, or that certain charges will be nolled or dismissed. If the child or youth and parent or guardian subsequently execute a written statement of responsibility at the pretrial conference, or the attorney for the child or youth conveys to the prosecutor an agreement on the adjudicatory grounds, a predispositional study shall be compiled by the probation department and the case shall be assigned for a plea and dispositional hearing.

(b) If a plea agreement has been reached by the parties which contemplates the entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere in a delinquency case, and the recommendation of a particular disposition, the agreement shall be disclosed in open court at the time the plea is offered. Thereupon the judicial authority may accept or reject any agreement, or may defer the decision on acceptance or rejection of the agreement until it has had an opportunity to review the predispositional study.

Committee Notes

amended June 13, 2014, to take effect Jan. 1, 2015; amended June 11, 2021, to take effect Jan. 1, 2022.)