93-21-113 - Reporting criminal acts or omissions to law enforcement personnel; filing charges against offender; plea bargaining. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 93-21-113. Reporting criminal acts or omissions to law enforcement personnel; filing charges against offender; plea bargaining.
 

Domestic violence shelters through their employees and officials shall, on every occasion other than the initial request for assistance, report to the district attorney, the county attorney, or the appropriate law enforcement official or other state agencies any occurrence or instance coming to their attention which would involve the commission of a crime or the failure to perform or render a service or assistance to a victim of domestic violence when required by law to do so. 
 

Every municipal prosecutor, county attorney, district attorney or other appropriate law enforcement official who, having had reported to him a case of domestic violence, if the facts submitted be sufficient, shall immediately file charges against the offender on the behalf of the victim. Such prosecutor may in plea bargaining with the offender enter into an agreement whereby the offender shall receive counseling in lieu of further prosecution, and if the offender shall successfully attend counseling as agreed upon for the period of time agreed upon, the municipal prosecutor, county attorney or district attorney, as the case may be, shall pass such case to the file. 
 

No municipal prosecutor, county attorney or district attorney shall grant such right in plea bargaining to the same offender more than once. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1983, ch. 502, § 7; Laws, 2007, ch. 589, § 9, eff from and after July 1, 2007.