An agreed judgment is one in which the state and the sureties enter into an agreement without aging to go to trial.

• A. It is an agreement to proceed to trial
• B. It is an agreement to resolve the case with a jury trial
• C. It is a court-imposed judgment after a failed negotiation
• D. It is an agreement between the state and sureties to avoid going to trial

Answer: (D)

An agreed judgment is a settlement reached before trial in which the parties—here the state and the sureties—agree on the outcome and ask the court to enter a judgment reflecting that agreement. This means they have decided not to proceed to trial and instead have the court record the terms as a binding judgment. The other scenarios describe either moving forward to trial, resolving the case through a jury trial, or a court-imposed result only after negotiations fail, none of which capture the idea of a voluntary, pre-trial agreement between the parties.