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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60002</law_id><section_number>16.1-360</section_number><catch_line>Disclosure by juvenile during evaluation or restoration; use at guilt phase of trial adjudication or disposition hearing</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="18">Juvenile Competency</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No statement or disclosure by the juvenile concerning the alleged <span class="dictionary">offense</span> made during a competency evaluation ordered pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Raising question of competency to stand trial; evaluation and determination of competency" href="/16.1-356/">16.1-356</a>, or services ordered pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Disposition when juvenile found incompetent" href="/16.1-357/">16.1-357</a> may be used against the juvenile at the adjudication or <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> <span class="dictionary">hearings</span> as <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> or as a basis for such <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>.</p></section></text><history>1999, cc. 958, 997.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
