NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 117

SENATE BILL 180

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 15A-1021 TO REMOVE THE RESTRICTION ON TRIAL JUDGE PARTICIPATION IN PLEA BARGAINING DISCUSSIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-1021(a), Chapter 1286 of the 1973 Session Laws, is hereby amended by deleting in its entirety the last sentence thereof and by rewriting said sentence to read as follows: "The trial judge may participate in the discussions."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on the same date on which Chapter 15A of the General Statutes, entitled "Criminal Procedure Act" and enacted as Chapter 1286 of the 1973 Session Laws, becomes effective.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1975.