When a person is on probation or parole as result of a conviction for some type of drug charge part a condition of that person’s supervision will be that they not take illegal drugs. Not an unreasonable request, right? It has been my experience when dealing with Montgomery County probation violations that the vast majority […]
The most common sentence for a defendant who has been convicted of a crime in Pennsylvania is a term of probation. The idea is that the defendant stay out of trouble for the probationary term or risk going back to jail. Well, as you might have guessed, there is a fair amount of people […]
What is a “probation detainer”? Answer: When a person is on probation and they do not obey the terms of their probation, the probation officer assigned to the case can asked that the person be locked up. The most common time when this happens is when the guy that’s on probation “catches a new case”. […]