Legal Question in Criminal Law in Michigan

Re: Hyta

HYTA is the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, which is a special law created by the Michigan Legislature that states when a defendant who was under 21 at the age a crime was committed pleads guilty to that crime, that defendant, after serving a period of probation (and potentially some jail time) can have the plea taken under advisement and dismissed upon the successful completion of the Judge's terms. If the defendant fails to comply, the plea can be accepted as a plea and a conviction entered on the defendant's permanent record.

Re: Hyta

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Re: Hyta

762.11 Criminal offense by individual between ages 17 and 20; assignment to status of youthful trainee; exceptions; definitions.

Sec. 11.

(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), if an individual pleads guilty to a criminal offense, committed on or after the individual's seventeenth birthday but before his or her twenty-first birthday, the court of record having jurisdiction of the criminal offense may, without entering a judgment of conviction and with the consent of that individual, consider and assign that individual to the status of youthful trainee.

Which means if the individual obeys the order of the court, there will be no criminal record created.