Originally Posted by
Fr_Chuck
First I will be blunt and sound hateful, why is the son not calling his PO, he is a adult now I assume, and if he is a adult, the PO should not even be talking to his parents.
If he is still a minor, then juv court works alot different than adult court even as to what and how the judges do things.
If he is in Georgia and many other states, if there was drugs in the car, every one in the car can be found guilty, the state does not even have to prove he knew they were there, state does not have to prove they were his, all the state has to do is prove 1. he was in the car, 2, drugs were in the car. so don't be so sure that he will get out of those new charges. And of course this along with a dirty drug test is showing a pattern that he is using drugs and hanging around with people who are using drugs.
And yes the judge can easily give him the entire 5 years in jail if they want to. Normally this may not happen, but he could easily expect 90 days to 6 months.
A shock program can be many thngs, one of the common things we have here in GA are boot camps, sorta like going to a marine basic training but perhaps tougher, what they do is sentence him to something like 2 years, but suspend the rest if he completes the boot camp, which is about 3 months long.
And if this is adult prison, often he may be sentenced to the other side of the state. And in boot camps normally for the first 6 weeks or so there are no visits anyway.
