[calidreamin]

I am just going to throw my situation out there. In the past year, I have started to get in alota trouble started with a a&b (With a bunch of other little charges that they love to throw in)around christmas time , in march I got a dui. Both were continued with out a finding. I was also charged with another a&B but the charges were dropped so I don't even know if that matters anymore?but anyway I was put on probation for a year for those charges. However recentlty at a house party a fight broke out, and despite my best effortsto stay clear of the fight, I was one of the four people named by the house owners who started the fight. So with these new charges(witch my friends say there lawyers are sure the charges won't hold up) I needles to say violated my probation. The judge put me in jail for a night and now just I'm out on house arrest until my hearing in a couple weeks. Hopefuly getting off the house arrest? But anyway I'm 19 years old am in college studying criminal justice( don't laugh )and with my dreams of being a cop going down the drain I have decided to change my major to fire science in the hopes of becoming a fire fighter. My question is I live in new england and I realize I have to grow up and stop drinking and stop running around the way I was. I am truly not a bad kid just a few fist fights that I have been in trouble, I realize that it still a crime and don't intend for that to be excuses or for sympathy. Okay well my question is, I want to get out of here, as far as I can, I have found a college in California that I want to attend next fall, it has my major(not many schools do) and my best friend is also going and we want to move into our own apartment while going to school(however he does have a aunt down there we may live with if we can till we get on our feet). Knowing my past record and my charges do you think I have a chance of moving my probation?(this is my first violation I have never failed a drug test or anything like that)

[Fr_Chuck]

If you already have several misdemeanors on your record I would forget getting on to some of the larger higher paying departments, that have a high applicant pool. But then there are some larger departments that have trouble getting people to work ( inner city areas) and also 1000's of small towns that pay poor wages with no benefits, many people with border line backgrounds get their start at.

The trouble with you being on probation, being 19 and soiunding like you were around a bunch of people who were drinking, and were fighting, you can have your probation violated just for being there, even if you were found not guilty yourself.

If you want a carrer in criminal justice you need to stop hanging with those type of people, most don't end up fighting and being arrested for it.

Also many of the same standards for police officers also applies to fire fighters, I woiuld check the required background on both.

You have a chance of moving it, esp if you are found not guilty on this charge, but it will take several months to get it approved, so ask far enough ahead