Honey in jail for v.o.p. and we are just wondering?

Question

my fiancee and father of my 2 yr old son and almost step father to my 10 yr old daughter violated probation and turned himself in to his probation officer...his charge is felony habitual driving while license suspended....he orginally got his license suspended a year ago for unpaid parking tickets. he is driving as he owns his own business and he needs to take care of his family..he is not a druggie and he tried to get his hardship license when he got caught. he has hired 2 drivers in the past but one stole from him and the other hardly showed up for work. anyways he got no bond the next day and now just waiting til his court date in 3 weeks...his public defender said the state probably willl want to give him 9 months jail time..we can't take that deal cause he needs to come home as fast as possible so he said at his court date, he will just plead to the judge and hopefully get house arrest or community control..anybody else deal with this? please, any info will be appreciative

Answer 1

Sounds like they have been easy on him so far, but he did violate his parole and very well could do the 9 month sentence.  Sorry.  He did know what would happen before he drove.

Answer 2

bummer. should have paid his tickets. now he is going to pay alot more. he knew the consequences before he drove. now it's time to pay the piper.

Answer 3

Hard to Judge:

1. Does he have any priors?

2. A felony charge is never good,

3. The fact that he was awarded a public defender means that he is at least looking at the possibility of six months or more in jail

4. Public defender’s are notoriously lazy, he needs to start to push for a trial, that is the last thing the public defender wants to hear, he needs to clamp down on the public defender to demand he prepares an adequate defense as required by law or take he will take it up with the judge the first time he gets, that should scare the heck out of the public defender to push for a better plea deal

5. All that said sounds like he will have to do some time maybe three months? But I would not count on throwing one self on the mercy of the court and expect no jail time

Answer 4

Sorry, but your guy's problems started way before now.  He's had many chances to grow a sense of responsibility by:

1.  Not parking where/when he shouldn't

2.  Paying the parking tickets he got after deciding to park illegally

3.  Not continuing to break the law after deciding not to pay

Now he's having to pay the piper, so to speak.  Yes, he should go and plead his case to the judge but you, as his family, should be preparing for the worst that might happen.  Your fiance is not an asset to the community at this time and the judge may decide that he really needs to learn his lesson for good, and give him the full nine months.  Nine months is a fairly short sentence for a felony habitual traffic offender - Colorado's maximum sentence is 18 months, and Florida's maximum sentence is five years!