Among the Juvenile Code provisions that distinguish juvenile delinquency cases from criminal cases are the statutes that explicitly tie mental health assessments and access to mental health treatment to the procedure required to construct and enter a dispositional order. After an adjudication of delinquency occurs (meaning that the juvenile was found beyond a reasonable doubt to be responsible for the offense(s) charged), the case moves to the dispositional phase....
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A trial judge may permit any party to introduce additional evidence at any time before verdict. See G.S. 15A-1226(b).
There is no double jeopardy bar to a second trial when a charge is dismissed because an indictment or other criminal pleading is fatally defective.
In district court, jeopardy attaches once the court begins to hear evidence, which occurs when the first witness is sworn. In superior court, jeopardy attaches once the jury is sworn and impaneled.
A defendant may plead guilty or not guilty, or, with the consent of the prosecutor and judge, may plead “no contest.” See G.S. 15A-1011(a), (b).
A prosecutor’s failure to sign an indictment does not invalidate the indictment. G.S. 15A-644(a)(4).
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