{"id":4337,"date":"2026-07-23T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:25:25","slug":"rules-of-juvenile-procedure-comment-period-closes-september-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/2026\/07\/23\/rules-of-juvenile-procedure-comment-period-closes-september-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Juvenile Procedure &#8211; Comment Period Closes September 8, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/07\/Rule-20-Draft-July-7-2026-redline.pdf\">URJP020.<\/a> <strong>Discovery\u00a0generally. Amend.<\/strong>\u00a0The proposed 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\u00a0(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-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/07\/Rule-23A-Draft-July-7-2026-redline.pdf\">URJP023A.<\/a> <strong>Hearing on factors of Utah Code section 80-6-503; bind over to district court. Amend.<\/strong>\u00a0The proposed amendments to Rule 23A update statutory\u00a0references while removing procedural provisions\u00a0duplicative 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URJP020. Discovery\u00a0generally. Amend.\u00a0The proposed 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629,494,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-of-juvenile-procedure","category-urjp020","category-urjp023a"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 14:02:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}