§ 11-361 Definition of program

AZ Rev Stat § 11-361 (2019) (N/A)
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11-361. Definition of program

For the purposes of this article, unless the context otherwise requires, " program" means a special supervision program in which the county attorney of a participating county may divert or defer, before a guilty plea or a trial, the prosecution of a person who is accused of committing a crime, except that the county attorney may not divert or defer the prosecution of a person who:

1. Has been previously convicted of a serious offense as defined in section 13-706, an offense under title 13, chapter 14, a dangerous offense as defined in section 13-105 or a dangerous crime against children as defined in section 13-705.

2. Has been convicted three or more times of either:

(a) Personal possession of a controlled substance as defined in section 36-2501.

(b) Personal possession of drug paraphernalia as defined in section 13-3415.