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on that person's own behalf and to be represented by counsel.__If
the person who was granted deferred disposition pursuant to section
1348-A can not afford counsel, the court shall appoint counsel for
the person.__Assignment of counsel and withdrawal of counsel must
be in accordance with the Maine Rules of Criminal Procedure.

 
5.__A summons must be used to order a person who was granted
deferred disposition pursuant to section 1348-A to appear for a
hearing under this section.__If the person can be located and
served with a summons, the attorney for the State may not
commence a hearing under this section by having the person
arrested, except that a person who fails to appear as required
may be arrested pursuant to a bench warrant or an order of
arrest.

 
6. If a person who was granted deferred disposition pursuant
to section 1348-A can not, with due diligence, be located, the
attorney for the State shall file a written notice of this fact
with the court that ordered the deferred disposition.__If the
hearing is for a final disposition at the conclusion of the
period of deferment, and the person fails to appear at that
hearing, the person may be arrested pursuant to a bench warrant
or an order of arrest.__If the hearing is to determine whether
the person has inexcusably failed to comply with a court-imposed
deferment requirement, the attorney for the State shall apply for
a warrant of arrest in accordance with Rule 41 of the Maine Rules
of Criminal Procedure.

 
§1348-C.__Limited review by appeal

 
A person is precluded from seeking to attack the legality of a
deferred disposition, including a final disposition, except that
a person who has been determined by a court to have inexcusably
failed to comply with a court-imposed deferment requirement and
thereafter has been sentenced to an alternative authorized for
the crime may appeal to the Law Court, but not as of right.__The
time for taking the appeal and the manner and any conditions for
the taking of the appeal are as the Supreme Judicial Court
provides by rule.

 
CHAPTER 54-G

 
ADMINISTRATIVE RELEASE

 
§1349.__Eligibility for sentence alternative that includes

 
period of administrative release

 
A person who has been convicted of a Class D or Class E crime
may be sentenced to a sentence alternative under section 1152
that includes a period of administrative release, unless:


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