99-15-105 - Establishment of pretrial intervention program; role of district attorney; application. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 99-15-105. Establishment of pretrial intervention program; role of district attorney; application.
 

(1)  Each district attorney, with the consent of a circuit court judge of his district, shall have the prosecutorial discretion as defined herein and may as a matter of such prosecutorial discretion establish a pretrial intervention program in the circuit court districts. 

(2)  A pretrial intervention program shall be under the direct supervision and control of the district attorney. 

(3)  An offender must make application to an intervention program within the time prescribed by the district attorney. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1983, ch. 445, § 3; reenacted, 1987, ch. 329, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 1987.