{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-15-109","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-109","heading":"Conditions when intervention is appropriate.","body":"(1) Intervention shall be appropriate only when:\n(a) The offender is eighteen (18) years of age or older;\n(b) There is substantial likelihood that justice will be served if the offender is placed in an intervention program;\n(c) It is determined that the needs of the offender and the state can better be met outside the traditional criminal justice process;\n(d) It is apparent that the offender poses no threat to the community;\n(e) It appears that the offender is unlikely to be involved in further criminal activity;\n(f) The offender, in those cases where it is required, is likely to respond quickly to rehabilitative treatment;\n(g) The offender has no significant history of prior delinquency or criminal activity;\n(h) The offender has been indicted and is represented by an attorney; and\n(i) The court has determined that the office of district attorney or the department of corrections has sufficient support staff to administer such intervention program.\n(2) When jurisdiction in a case involving a child is acquired by the circuit court pursuant to a transfer from the youth court, the provision of subsection (1)(a) of this section shall not be applicable.\n(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, in all criminal cases wherein an offender has been held in contempt of court for failure to pay fines or restitution, the offender may be placed in pretrial intervention for the purpose of collecting unpaid restitution and fines regardless of any prior criminal conviction, whether felony or misdemeanor.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 15. Pretrial Proceedings","Pretrial Intervention Program"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.99.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:13Z","sha256":"3d6f230558ffd0185b18b8b057b3088ad7f2edd68404d58dd2cb2a27d8c56328","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-15-107","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-15-111","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}