{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-20-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-20-9","heading":"Notification of eligible persons; request for sentence to program; recommendations of victim.","body":"When a case appears to meet the eligibility criteria established in Section 99-20-5, the Department of Corrections representative shall notify the district attorney of that district and the defense attorney.\nThe Department of Corrections representative, the district attorney and the defense attorney shall request the court to sentence the defendant to the community service restitution program. The Department of Corrections representative shall present to the court its basis for requesting the community service sentence. In addition, the victim, if any, of the crime for which the defendant is charged shall be asked to comment in writing as to whether or not the defendant shall be allowed to enter the program. The court shall not be bound by such recommendations.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 20. Community Service Restitution"],"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":"03313800e0c7217a38c3c43222bae53d8d0431bd385b2fcc9bc5338222b5cc37","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-20-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-20-11","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."}