Q: I ran for 2 years from my stuff but I turned my self in.
I have a job for a year and I lived at the same place for a 2 years I've been clean I have my kids back. I went to the public defender and he said the prosecutor wants to put me on a 6 month rider. Do you think the judge will or let me get a interstate compact to go back where I am doing good.
A: If you were on felony probation, where one of the first promises you made was to obey all laws, and you ran away, absconded for 2 years, how would it be unfair of the court to convert your probation to a Rider? How does what you have been doing since you came back, atone for the running you did for the past 2 years? What you're saying is that YOU make the rules, YOU do what YOU want when YOU want. Huh?! That's not what a law-abiding, parolee does. The fact that you're apparently doing well now just means that as long as nobody in authority is requiring your obedience, you're fine. Sorry. That's not going to fly in this world, anywhere I know of. Idaho may be isolated and you may think that probation is not your thing, but as far as I've seen, Idaho and it's police, probation officers, clerks, prosecutors, public defenders and judges ALL respect the Rule of Law, which means that when you're given the opportunity to go on probation and YOU make promises to the Court and then willingly, intentionally break those promises and demonstrate that you are not willing to follow laws and rules, you deserve to pay a price and you need to learn the lesson that felony probation would have taught you. A Rider would now be a gift, in my humble opinion.
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