{"id":4575,"date":"2026-10-27T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:35:05","slug":"rules-of-juvenile-procedure-effective-november-1-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/2026\/10\/27\/rules-of-juvenile-procedure-effective-november-1-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Juvenile Procedure &#8211; Effective November 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/Rule-20-Draft-July-7-2026-redline-for-Final-Publication-Effective-November-1-2026.pdf\">URJP020.<\/a> <strong>Discovery generally.<\/strong> Amend. The approved changes to Rule 20 include: (a) renaming the rule to &#8220;Discovery and subpoenas in delinquency and criminal proceedings,&#8221; reflecting the expanded scope and applicability to delinquency and criminal proceedings in juvenile court; (b) removing language not related to discovery in delinquency or criminal proceedings; (c) explicitly requiring prosecutors in the county of occurrence to disclose discovery materials prior to arraignment; (d) adopting and clarifying that Rule 14 of the Utah Rules of Criminal Procedure governs subpoenas; and (e) articulating the timing and content requirements for notice of expert witnesses in trials and hearings, and potential sanctions for noncompliance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/Rule-23A-Draft-July-7-2026-redline-for-Final-Publication-Effective-November-1-2026.pdf\">URJP023A.<\/a> <strong>Hearing on factors of Utah Code section 80-6-503; bind over to district court.<\/strong> Amend. The approved amendments to Rule 23A update statutory references while removing procedural provisions duplicative of Utah Code section 80-6-504. Additionally, the proposal simplifies the procedures for binding a minor over to district court following a probable cause determination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/Rule-20-and-Rule-23A-Signed-Order-Effective-11-1-26.pdf\">Supreme Court Order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URJP020. Discovery generally. Amend. The approved changes to Rule 20 include: (a) renaming the rule to &#8220;Discovery and subpoenas in delinquency and criminal proceedings,&#8221; reflecting the expanded scope and applicability to delinquency and criminal proceedings in juvenile court; (b) removing language not related to discovery in delinquency or criminal proceedings; (c) explicitly requiring prosecutors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,432,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-of-juvenile-procedure","category-urjp020","category-urjp023a"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-04 23:00:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}