Probation

Right Law Group's guide explains: "While completing probation is much easier than serving jail time, that doesn’t mean that completing probation is an easy process."

Right Law Group's guide explains: "Your Guide To Successfully Completing Probation Probation is your first step to freedom. You may have just completed a jail sentence and are now required to go through probation, or a judge may have sentenced you to probation as an alternative to jail."

Right Law Group's guide explains: "What happens when you don’t show up to court? When you miss a scheduled court date in Colorado, it’s known as a “Failure to Appear” violation."

Alexis explains: "if you take a plea where let's say it's a deferred sentence a deferred sentence meaning if you take a plea and you do probation you can get the case dismissed at the end yeah a lot of people have problems they're like well if i'm not going to have the case enter as a conviction why should i do probation what i tell them is you can look at it one of two ways you can look at it as hey i've just got to put in this time to make sure i get this off my record which is perfectly fine"

Alexis explains: "right law group was designed specifically to help people get on the right path get back on track so we're really working with clients who are saying yeah i either screwed up and i want to get back on track let me know what i need to do we do have clients who need our help because they were wrongly charged that happens all the time and the right path for them is getting this all taken care of"

Alexis explains: "so basically the theory behind probation is when you're looking at any kind of crime let's take a misdemeanor because that's kind of middle of the road um if you have a misdemeanor charge that's a class one misdemeanor carries with at a potential of up to 18 months in jail probation was designed to give people the chance to engage in activities outside of jail so treatment therapy basically a probationary period to see if they really can come back pay their debt to society without having to be actually put into jail so it's a sentencing alternative"

Alexis explains: "the end point because a lot of my clients that i've worked with over the years don't want to be on supervised probation because they don't want a probation officer breathing down the neck which makes sense and probation costs money so if they're doing all these things in advance it can keep it so that they don't have to have a supervisor on probation they can do what's called unsupervised probation um and be able to just turn in everything either to the law firm to the courts directly oh perfect perfect yeah i was gonna say like we really like to jump get proactive get ahead of it come up to court ready to go we already have stuff um handled so"

Alexis explains: "the short answer is yes it's all case by case but there are some really good tips that we can give you guys um a couple of things if you get a dui if it's a refusal a breath does a blood test anything there are a lot of steps that you can take up front to make sure that you're putting the best foot forward for the judge and for the da's if you're going to take a plea or if you go to trial and you're sentenced and found guilty you can start doing things proactively now when you have your license so many of our clients that have blood tests and they're in that waiting period we've talked about they have their license right now and i tell them go get all this stuff done as much as you can so you can start enrolling in level two alcohol classes it's a statutory thing everyone in colorado has to take them if you have a dui and you're convicted of one so you might as well get started early we actually have a couple of really good recommendations for people who a good friend of ours is actually doing alcohol treatment via zoom still so there are easy ways to get in and get going on this yeah um other things you can do start doing community service in colorado springs you have to sign up through front range community service center to get that done but you can start doing that and the other thing you can do is you can take the mothers against drunk driving panel it's an online course it's two hours it's going to be required for a first-time dui offender so you might as well get it done early and everything you do early from the time you get your dui to the time you're sentenced counts so a lot of the time getting that stuff done in advance will really help you at"