Cedar Park, TX asked in Criminal Law for Texas

Q: Can i get in trouble for giving someone extra community service hours by mistake?

I work at a non profit organisation and there is a volunteer who did community service at my workplace and he had to complete 60 hours as per the court and after the first three or four times he came in he lost his sheet which had a record of his previous hours but i still gave him his hours but i didnt know the exact dates so i wrote the dates which i thought he came on but later on he finished his 60 hours a month back.My question is can i get in trouble for putting one or two dates wrong mistakenly and i gave him almost 2-3 hours extra without knowledge of consequences?

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Kiele Linroth Pace
Kiele Linroth Pace
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  • Criminal Law Lawyer
  • Austin, TX
  • Licensed in Texas

A: You can get arrested and charged for stabbing the Tooth Fairy but whether or not the prosecutor can prove those facts beyond a reasonable doubt is another matter! It is unlikely you will get into trouble if it was only this one time for this one volunteer. If you DO get into trouble a good criminal defense attorney can probably get you out of it EXCEPT not if you go making a habit of it ... then the prosecution show a pattern of behavior and imply that it wasn't an accident.

On a tagentally related note, have you ever noticed that sometimes the Sheriff starts giving 2-for-1 days credit for inmates with good behavior and even 3-for-1 when overcrowding is extreme?

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