Upon sentencing to the community service restitution program, the judge shall instruct the defendant as to what the sentence would have been had he or she not been placed in the community service restitution program, and shall inform the defendant as to consequences of failure to perform the community service sentence.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution
§ 99-20-1. Short title; purpose
§ 99-20-3. Participation in community service restitution program
§ 99-20-5. Qualifications for participation in program
§ 99-20-7. Determining persons eligible for participation; review of district attorney's files
§ 99-20-11. Agreement to and acceptance of sentence by defendant; conditional discharge
§ 99-20-15. Written agreement between program participant and department of corrections