Probation Violation Question?

Question

A friend of mine is on probation for a drug charge from 2005. It was put down as a first offender, he was put on intense probation and did community service and so on. Then, in 2007, he got into an altercation with his wife at her job and was arrested and his probation officer made him do 45 days because of violation of probation. He was released in February and was assigned a new P.O. put back on regular probation and so on. THEN, (i know) he got arrested on Saturday b/c he was hanging at his friends house and the police raided the house and found a gun and some drugs which it wasn't his but no one would confess to it being theirs. Now he was released from jail on bond, and he went and spoke with his P.O. They didn't arrest him, but he told him that he would have to go to a hearing and that his first offender would most likely be revoked. If he was going to go back to jail would they have arrested him then. What should he expect? Should he ask for home confinement if all fails?

Answer 1

your friend is what we call a habitual offender losers like him need to be locked up.v he has proved that probation means nothing to him

dump the loser friend  hes going to prison he will serve all three sentences back to back

Answer 2

I would have to know his probation conditions in order to really know what he can expect. But I am going to guess and say that one of them was that he couldn't be in a place or around people that were in possession of guns and drugs. That is a violation of his conditions. This would be his second violation and the judge will take into account what the P.O. will suggest. But yes the judge of course can overrule the P.O. and give him either an extension to his probation and/or more community service, or some jail time.

Home confinement isn't a good thing. You have to pay for that monitoring device. He needs to discuss this with his P.O. again. His P.O. is the one that really needs to give the judge his input and help represent him at the hearing. My personal thought, he should ask for more community service and at least a one year extension.

Answer 3

well, he's continuing to be STUPID AS h**l and hanging out with losers, so his butt will be going back to jail repeatedly.

he needs to talk to his PO, and deal with it.

BTW, he won't stay out of trouble.  you know it, HE knows it.  find another friend.

Answer 4

Your friend should:

1) Get a lawyer

2) Stop breaking the law

3) Stop associating with persons of questionable character.

I hope they throw the book at him and he learns his lesson and becomes a responsible, law-abiding, productive American citizen.  (However, I'm not optomistic.  Folks on the path your friend is on rarely turn it around.)

Answer 5

The probation officer is an officer of the Court.  They only enforce the terms of probation, so they are subordinate to the Court.