Utah Probation Violations

Probation violations can occur for a variety of reasons. In many cases, when someone is criminally sentenced, they will find that they are facing criminal penalties that include incarceration. In some situations, however, the judge may decide that in lieu of having the defendant spent the entire sentence in prison or jail, they may serve some of their time on what is known as probation- sometimes they will spend their entire sentence on probation instead. This is basically a supervised sentence. The defendant isn’t exactly walking free, but they certainly have more freedom then they would in jail or prison.

Probation, however, is not without its strings. In fact, probationary terms will always come with certain terms that must be met by the defendant. This could be having a curfew, not having contact with a certain person or could even be staying away from certain locations. Almost always, one of the terms will be in keeping contact and having regular meetings with a probation or parole officer. These don’t seem all too difficult but violating these terms can be all too easy.