Requirement of plea to information, simplified information or prosecutor's information
§ 170.60 Requirement of plea to information, simplified information or
prosecutor's information.
Unless an information, a simplified information or a prosecutor's information is dismissed or the criminal action thereon terminated or abated pursuant to a provision of this article or some other provision of law, the defendant must be required to enter a plea thereto.
Unless it's dismissed or the action terminated/abated, the defendant must be required to enter a plea to an information, simplified information, or prosecutor's information. ★ (Note: this list excludes the misdemeanor complaint — that's § 170.65's territory.)
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 3 — The JG-22 Criminal Procedure Law and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.