State v. Lopes

PARSONS, Jr., J.S.C.

By way of timely motion, the defendant, Paulo A. Lopes, challenges the judicially-appointed Pretrial Intervention program director’s denial of his application for admission into the Pretrial Intervention program (PTI). Because the prosecutor consents to the defendant’s admission into PTI while the PTI program director (PTI director or program director) opposes his participation in it, the court must decide this case according to the standard of review applicable to a PTI program director’s decision whether to admit a defendant into PTI. Before discussing the nature of the…