Q: If you are currently on probation & someone thinks you have purjured yourself can they turn you in for more harsh?
Even though the details are not why you received the misdemeanor? If they want to turn you in for a detail that they say you were not honest about in the police report and not sure if it came out in court or not, could they turn into your your probation officer or the court to see if you could have harsher punishment through the court for purjury?
A: One of the terms of most probations is not to break a criminal law. Filing a false police report is against the law. If a person is charged with filing a false police report then it is a violation of probation. However the mere allegation of filing a police report may not be sufficient for a probation officer to violate a probationer.
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