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Tribal Probation
January 12th, 2009 | Add a Comment
If you are serving a term of probation for a conviction in the Gila River Indian Community Court, you can spend the entire term of probation in jail if you violate a single condition of your probation. That means that if you’re doing a year of probation and fail to check in or get caught drinking, you could do a year of jail. No matter how long your term of probation is, you can get the same amount of jail. By stacking counts, the courts can put defendents on probation for years. That probably means years of jail sooner or later. When I first handled a Gila River Indian Community probation case, almost every defendant automatically got the max unless the prosecutor was willing to cut them … Read entire article »
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