{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-21-1115","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 21-1115","heading":"Inquiry under this chapter if person convicted of offense.","body":"(a)\nOn the conviction by a court of record of competent jurisdiction of a person of an offense, or of a violation of an ordinance which is in whole or in part a violation of a statute of the District of Columbia, the court when satisfied on the testimony of a physician or a psychologist or other psychologist or other evidence that the person has at least a moderate intellectual disability as defined in the Citizens with Intellectual Disabilities Constitutional Rights and Dignity Act (D.C. Official Code § 7-1301.01 et seq.), may suspend sentence, or suspend the entering of an order sending the person to a jail, prison, or reformatory, or to a training or industrial school, and direct that a parent or guardian appointed by the court file a petition under that act.\n\n(b)\nWhen the court directs a petition to be filed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, it may order that, pending the preparation, filing and hearing of the petition, the person be detained in a place of safety, or be placed under the guardianship of a suitable person, if that person enters into a recognizance for his appearance.\n\n(c)\nWhere, upon the hearing of a petition filed pursuant to this section or pursuant to a subsequent hearing under this chapter, the person is found not to have at least a moderate intellectual disability, the court shall impose sentence.","path":["Title 21. Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]","Chapter 11. Commitment and Maintenance of Persons with Moderate Intellectual Disabilities."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/21-1115","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"36b15b0d1d39544a2ef2e66806c1970462b0009a26921a950debea9770bf602e","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-21-1114","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-21-1116"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}