Q: A friend of mine has been given the run around over a felony charge before 2013, with state probation...see below plez
A friend of mine was convicted of 2 counts of sale of .5 grams of cocaine and his sentence was 8 years community corrects. He had a car accident back in 2003, that resulted in him having a closed head injury and has a hard time with remembering dates, but this has been ongoing since before 2013. He was only suppose to be on 9 months state probation, then turn to misdemeador probation. He had violated his first time due to watching and holding his live in girlfriend die in 2016. He not only lost his soulmate, but disability as well. But doesn't his sentence roll back to day 1? If this is true, why would he still be on state probation and the violation happened in 2016, the 9 months would have been up by now. How can He go about getting his original paperwork, sentence, time served,etc along with what came of the violation in 2016? He said that the state probation keeps giving him the run around when it comes to getting a straight answer from his state probation officer...
A: Your Friend needs to hire a competent attorney to investigate the Judgment of Conviction. Then start adding up jail time and probation. He can probably at least get unsupervised probation for the remainder of whatever the Sentence is. Again hire a lawyer.
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