If you are on probation and get a DUI, serve 3 days in jail and then get released, do you then get re-arrested the next day for probation violation?
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If you are on probation and get a DUI, serve 3 days in jail and then get released, do you then get re-arrested the next day for probation violation?
Asked on July 1, 2015 under Criminal Law, California
Answers:
B.H.F., Member, Texas State Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
If you are on probation for a DUI, sometimes the judge will require you to served jail time as a condition of probation. You will remain on probation until such time as you violate your probation. If you never violate, you will be discharged. If you do violate a condition, then at that time a warrant could be issued for your arrest and you again be arrested.
If you were on proabation for a DUI, and while on probation got arrested for a new and different case, then it is possible that you could be released on the new charge.... and then rearrested later for a probation violation once the court learned about the new charge. It's all about the timing of when your probation officer or the court learn about the charge.
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