I am in Florida and wanted to know if anyone knows if it is manditory that a probation officer violates you if you have committed another crime, or if that is solely at their discretion?

Committing another crime is a violation of probation plain and simple. If your PO doesn't violate you I would be surprised.

OK but what if I had not even started probation, see this is what happened. I pleaded guilty to a DUI and was placed on probation and a few hours later was pulled over and charge with driving on suspended licence. In Florida there are a few different offenses and I thought I had 10 days to obtain a hardship licence, but what it actually is, you have 10 days from the arrest to get one not the conviction and I wasn't arrested because I was in a single car accident and in the hospital for 4 days, I got a call that I had a warrant for arrest 4 months later. So I turned myself in. I called the DMV and they told me the same thing, but I was confused so that is why I wanted to know if there was any way the PO could and would give me a break and since I have only been charged right now and not convicted its not a violation yet anyway.

The only thing you can do is talk to the PO

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Originally Posted by danny34465

I am in florida and wanted to know if anyone knows if it is manditory that a probation officer violates you if you have commited another crime, or if that is soley at their discretion?

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Typically its at their discretion. However, depending on who it is and how nice they are is another matter. My best advice: Apologize, show remorse, and hope for forgiveness.

See that's what I want to know more than anything. I am intelligent at this point to realise it is a violationg, but what I wanted to know was, is it manditory or can the probation officer not violate you if they choose not to. I am hoping for that and I'm sure god willing it will be all goodl

Hello again, danny:

In my experience, probation officers look for reasons to violate you. They don't look for reasons NOT to.

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They have some say in the matter, depending on the crime, why it happened and if you reported it to them right away. The fastest way is not to tell them and let them find it on their computer.

I did tell them right away, I went to my intake and they told me I wasn't even in their system yet and I wrote down what happened. I'm not going to try to pull a fast one. I am going to be a man and own up to what I did and I am sorry and really want to correct these problems. I will take whatever punishment like a man, but I would like to think I have a chance of working my way out of this without going to jail.