Court Opinion

ID: 9672738
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:59:23.305502+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:18.016941
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CARTER, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent. A dispositional hearing is intended to be held following the entry of an order of adjudication. Iowa Code section 232.50 (1981). As a result, the dispositional hearing is beyond the point in the proceedings when a consent decree should be considered.
The juvenile court, in withholding formal entry of an order of adjudication, is entitled to condition that action on such grounds as the court deems proper. The entry directing the withholding of the order of adjudication in the present case was expressly conditioned on advancing the proceeding directly to the dispositional hearing — a circumstance which should preclude any entitlement to a consent decree. I would affirm the juvenile court.