Title 15, Title 15

1. Issuance and contents. The summons issued by the law enforcement officer must include the signature of the law enforcement officer, a brief description of the alleged juvenile crime, the time and place of the alleged juvenile crime and the time and place the juvenile is to app…

A juvenile must personally appear, and the juvenile or the juvenile's counsel may enter an answer asserting the absence of criminal responsibility by reason of insanity or denying, admitting or not contesting the allegations of the petition, in accordance with Rules 11 and 11A of…

1. Notice and appointment. The provisions of this subsection address a juvenile's right to counsel. A. At a juvenile's first appearance before the court, the juvenile and the juvenile's parent or parents, guardian or legal custodian must be fully advised by the court of their con…

At the juvenile's first appearance or at a subsequent appearance before the court, the court may order the juvenile's unconditional release, conditional release or detention in accordance with section 3203‑A. Unless the court orders otherwise, a juvenile put on conditional releas…

1. Juvenile hearings conducted as they would be for adults. 1-A. Disclosure of juvenile's identity. A law enforcement officer, officer of the court, juvenile community corrections officer or other representative of the Department of Corrections may not disclose the identity of an…

The following provisions apply to the dissemination of juvenile intelligence and investigative record information collected by or at the direction of or kept in the custody of any Maine criminal justice agency. [PL 2013, c. 267, Pt. D, §1 (NEW).] 1. Definitions. As used in this s…

1. Mandatory notice to school administrative unit. When a juvenile is charged in a juvenile petition that alleges the use or threatened use of physical force against a person or when a juvenile is adjudicated as having committed one or more juvenile crimes that involve the use or…

1. Confidentiality. Juvenile case records are confidential and may not be disclosed, disseminated or inspected except as expressly authorized by this Part. Juvenile case records open to public inspection may be inspected only at the courthouse. The court may not disseminate any j…

1. Record. A verbatim record must be made of all Juvenile Court proceedings. 2. Certain hearings public. Unless proceedings on a juvenile petition are suspended under section 3318‑A, subsection 5, the general public may not be excluded from any Juvenile Court hearing for which th…

To the extent not inconsistent with or inapplicable to Part 6, procedure in juvenile proceedings must be in accordance with the Maine Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure. The Supreme Judicial Court may promulgate rules for juvenile proceedings as provided under Title 4, section 8…

The court shall not order a juvenile to undergo a diagnostic evaluation, as defined in section 3003, subsection 4‑A, except as follows: [PL 1985, c. 213 (RPR).] 1. Information to assist findings in bind-over. When the prosecutor has moved for a bind-over hearing pursuant to secti…

Except as provided in section 3309‑A, subsection 4, the court may not order a juvenile to undergo a diagnostic evaluation at a detention facility unless the juvenile meets the requirements of section 3203‑A, subsection 4, paragraphs C and D, the facility is one in which the juven…

1. Evidence and fact-finding. The Maine Rules of Evidence shall apply in the adjudicatory hearing. There shall be no jury. 2. Consideration of additional evidence. A. When it appears that the evidence presented at the hearing discloses facts not alleged in the petition, the court…

Whenever a juvenile who is adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime is taken into custody as an interim measure pending the completion of a procedure authorized by law to be taken in regard to such juvenile, the juvenile may be placed into attendant care under the same ci…

1. Reports as evidence. For the purpose of determining proper disposition of a juvenile who has been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime, written reports and other material relating to the juvenile's mental, physical and social history may be received by the court al…

A juvenile who has entered an admission to a juvenile crime that would be a Class C, Class D or Class E crime or a civil violation if committed by an adult and who consents in writing to a deferred disposition is eligible for a deferred disposition pursuant to section 3311‑B.

1. Imposition. Following the acceptance of an admission of commission of a juvenile crime for which a juvenile is eligible for a deferred disposition under section 3311‑A, the court may order disposition deferred to a date certain or determinable and impose requirements upon the …

1. Court hearing; final disposition. Unless a court hearing is sooner held under subsection 2, at the conclusion of the period of deferment, after notice, a juvenile who was granted deferred disposition pursuant to section 3311‑B shall return to court for a hearing on final dispo…

A juvenile is precluded from seeking to attack the legality of a deferred disposition, including a final disposition, except that a juvenile who has been determined by a court to have inexcusably failed to comply with a court-imposed deferment requirement and thereafter has had i…

1. Evidence of proper disposition. After making an order of adjudication, the court shall hear evidence on the question of the proper disposition best serving the interests of the juvenile and the public. Such evidence must include, but is not necessarily limited to, the social s…

1. Standard. The court shall enter an order of disposition for a juvenile who has been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime without imposing placement in a secure institution as disposition unless, having regard to the nature and circumstances of the crime and the his…

1. Dispositional alternatives. When a juvenile has been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile crime, the court shall enter a dispositional order containing one or more of the following alternatives. A. The court may allow the juvenile to remain in the legal custody of the ju…

The period of probation of a juvenile, its modification and discharge, is as provided by Title 17‑A, section 1804, except that the period of probation of a juvenile adjudicated of a juvenile crime as defined by section 3103, subsection 1, paragraph B or C may not exceed one year.…

1. Counseling, treatment, education or case management. In conjunction with a disposition under section 3314, the court may require the juvenile and the juvenile's parent, guardian or legal custodian to participate in counseling, treatment, education or case management as determi…

1. Definitions. Terms used in this section have the same meaning as in Title 17‑A, section 2002, unless otherwise indicated. 2. Mandatory consideration of restitution. This subsection applies to the mandatory consideration of restitution. A. The court shall, whenever practicable,…

1. Right to review. Every disposition pursuant to section 3314 and 3318‑B, other than unconditional discharge, must be reviewed not less than once in every 12 months until the juvenile is discharged. The review must be made by a representative of the Department of Corrections unl…

When a juvenile is in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, Title 22, chapter 1071, subchapter VI also applies.

1. Sharing of information about a committed juvenile. 2. Indeterminate disposition. The following provisions apply to indeterminate dispositions. A. A commitment of a juvenile to a Department of Corrections juvenile correctional facility pursuant to section 3314 must be for an in…

In instances of commitment of a juvenile to the Department of Health and Human Services or a Department of Corrections juvenile correctional facility or when the juvenile is under a specified period of probation, the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the commissioner's…

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Chronological immaturity" means a condition based on a juvenile's chronological age and significant lack of developmental skills when the juvenile…

1. Substantial probability that juvenile will be competent in the foreseeable future. If, following the competency determination hearing pursuant to section 3318‑A, subsection 7, the Juvenile Court finds that the juvenile is not competent to proceed but additionally finds that th…

1. Contents of competency order. Competency orders issued by the court may include only the following information. A. The order must include a finding of whether the juvenile is competent to proceed based on whether the juvenile has a rational, as well as factual, understanding o…

Immediately after the court orders detention or confinement in or commitment to a juvenile facility, the court shall notify the Commissioner of Corrections or the commissioner's designee and shall inquire as to the juvenile facility to which the juvenile will be transported. The …