A failed urinalysis drug/alcohol test that can result in a summons to court while on supervised probation.
“The way to fix your life is if you're on the pre-trial monitoring, you're not allowed to drink, you're gonna have to be very careful. You don't want to have any hot UAs or anything coming up where the judge is gonna think that they have to revoke your bond and put you back in jail. Usually, you're not going to jail on a DUI, but if you have any revocation of your bond, the judge can put you in jail for that. The other thing is if you have an interlock device, then you have to be prepared for, it's gonna cost quite a bit of money to get it installed. Usually it's around 600 bucks.”
“so there are a number of different mechanisms in place first and foremost it depends on if you're on unsupervised probation versus supervised probation so if you're on unsupervised probation depending on the severity of the violation um if you just let's say you're on a traffic case and you forgot to turn in your traffic class completion so what the courts will do is they will send a notice in the mail saying hey you you're getting revoked on probation unless you come tell us what was going on here and they'll give you a summons and a date to come to the court and explain what was going on if it's a more serious case and you're on supervised probation the probation officer can also give you a summons and say hey you failed this ua you gave a hot ua so i'm going to make you come to court and they'll give you a summons if it's more egregious if you just completely stop talking to your probation officer and just don't show up and they can't get a hold of you probation actually has the authority to request a warrant for your arrest”
Alexis explains: "so there are a number of different mechanisms in place first and foremost it depends on if you're on unsupervised probation versus supervised probation so if you're on unsupervised probation depending on the severity of the violation um if you just let's say you're on a traffic case and you forgot to turn in your traffic class completion so what the courts will do is they will send a notice in the mail saying hey you you're getting revoked on probation unless you come tell us what was going on here and they'll give you a summons and a date to come to the court and explain what was going on if it's a more serious case and you're on supervised probation the probation officer can also give you a summons and say hey you failed this ua you gave a hot ua so i'm going to make you come to court and they'll give you a summons if it's more egregious if you just completely stop talking to your probation officer and just don't show up and they can't get a hold of you probation actually has the authority to request a warrant for your arrest"
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