When a guilty verdict is final against a juvenile already under a protective disposition, who may cancel that disposition and what must be true first?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a juvenile practice file, we look at the order imposing the protective disposition, to see which juvenile division judge made it and that the disposition is still running, and at the certified copy of the guilty judgment or the record showing its appeal period has run out, to see whether it has become final.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading follows the provision step by step: where a protective disposition is still in progress and a guilty verdict against the case subject has become final, the juvenile division judge who imposed that disposition may cancel it by a ruling, but only where the judge finds that there is no longer any need for the disposition to continue.
Another reading stresses what the provision does not give: cancellation rests on the judge's own finding of no continuing need, no application by any party is mentioned, and the provision says nothing about what must be shown to establish that finality or that the need has gone.
Your judgment
If the disposition is still running, what in the file could persuade the juvenile division judge that it no longer needs to continue?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to require an application or to name who may ask for cancellation, or if a court decision explains what shows finality of the guilty verdict or what counts as no longer needing the disposition.