Judicial selection, 2022

  • Elected

  • Appointed

  • Combination

Judicial specialization, 2022

  • All mixed case types

  • Mostly mixed

  • Mostly specialized

Caseload assignment, 2022

  • Mixed assignment methods

  • Individual discretion

  • Statute/State court rules

Judicial experience, training, and tools, 2022

  • Qualification Requirements

  • Required Annual Training

  • Required Risk/Need Assessments and Pre-Dispositional Reports

  • Juvenile Justice Bench Books

Courtroom shackling, 2015

No statewide restriction

Competency, 2015

Michigan’s Juvenile Code (of statutes) has sections related to juvenile competency for delinquency proceedings, which align with the Dusky standard. Provisions include procedures for hearings, examinations, treatments, timelines, and application to certain offenses. Qualified Juvenile Forensic Mental Health Examiners must base the evaluation on the “juvenile adjudicative competence interview (JACI)” or another interview method approved by the court The number of hearings and juveniles found incompetent to proceed is reported to the state court administrator. A juvenile less than 10 years of age is presumed incompetent to proceed.

  • No juvenile standard

  • Juvenile standard is the adult standard

  • Juvenile justice standard exists

  • JJ standard includes developmental immaturity

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Juvenile Justice GPS (Geography, Policy, Practice, Statistics) is a project to develop a repository providing state policy makers and system stakeholders with a clear understanding of the juvenile justice landscape in the states.

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