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Mother enters no-contest plea; court accepts case-services plan and sets three-month review
Summary
In a pretrial before the Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court, respondent Jessica Adney entered a no-contest plea. The court admitted a signed case-services plan, kept the child in foster placement with reunification as the permanency goal, and scheduled a three-month review for Jan. 6 at 10 a.m.
Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court — A respondent in a child-welfare petition, identified in court records as Jessica Adney (file no. 24-177NA), entered a no-contest plea during a pretrial hearing and the court accepted a signed case-services plan and concluded initial disposition.
The judge explained that a no-contest plea means Adney would waive trial rights and that the court would “consider the facts in the petition as accurate,” then asked whether she wished to enter the plea; Adney answered, “No contest.” The court found the plea “knowingly, voluntarily and understandably made.”
The court admitted a signed case-services plan into evidence and ordered it to become part of the initial-disposition order. The judge said…
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