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wreckers29
Apr 15, 2009, 09:01 AM
HI EVERYONE :) I just found this site so here it is... I live in Florida and when I was 24 I got myself into trouble big trouble with drugs I was sentenced to a 10 years of probation I am now 29 I have had no in fractions of any and am trying to see if the judge will grant me unsupervised probbation for the remainder so I can pay off the HUGE fine I got handed it started at 55 thousand and have paid it down to 44,020. I have made all payments on time and all payments on time for my supervition have ccomepleted everything that they asked hrs etc... I have the suprt of my probation oficer he he wrote a letter to the judge ask by him he said he superted it and that I haven't been a problem so my question is how do these letters impacked the judges desition and how do ask him for it I have No money for a aturney so I'm going alone

twinkiedooter
Apr 15, 2009, 11:28 AM
Why do you think you need unsupervised probation for the remaining 5 years of your term? If a Judge sentenced you to 10 years probation and a huge fine, I'm sure he's going to stick with his original sentence for you regardless of how "good" you have been these past 5 years. He must have felt that the 10 years was necessary considering your circumstances. To want an unspervised probation sounds like you want to do something like leave the state totally, or do something shady to me, but then that's just me thinking here.

I would buckle down and pay off that fine as soon as possible and then in a few years go back and ask the Judge again. Right now only 5 years into your probation and not enough paid off (not even half) I really don't think he's going to go for it. You've only paid the equivalent of $2,200 a year or $183 a month so if I were the Judge I wouldn't be too impressed.

BTW, I worked in criminal law offices in South Florida for over 10 years as a paralegal.