Sufficiency of Plea in Juvenile Cases
A defendant must understand their plea before it can be entered in front of the court. With juveniles, MCR 3.941(C) says “the court shall tell the juvenile: the possible dispositions.”
SORA not Punishment for Juvenile's CSC Adjudication
In In re TD, the COA held that application of SORA was not "punishment," so it could not be deemed unconstitutional on grounds that it was cruel and unusual as applied to the respondent.