P.R. Laws Ap. tit. 34A, § II, Rule 246
A compromise may be reached only concerning misdemeanors and felonies in the fourth or third degree when the defendant has made every effort to agree to indemnify the injured part and has provided compensation to the greatest degree according to the juridical situation prior to the commission of the offense, or has indemnified the latter totally or substantially, in a situation in which repairing the damages demands notable obligatory community work with the consent of the injured party and the prosecution.
In those cases in which a settlement is allowed in this rule, if the injured party appears before the court where the case is pending at any time before the trial, and fully acknowledges that he has received satisfaction for the injury, the court, in its discretion and with the participation of the prosecuting attorney, and upon payment of the costs, may order the dismissal and supersession thereof, which shall be entered in the minutes. The supersession and dismissal thus decreed shall stop the filing of another charge against the defendant for the same offense.
History —July 1, 1988, No. 53, p. 254, § 1; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 317, § 19.