What Should You Do If You Are Accused of Violating Probation In Alaska?
The first step is to call Carlson Law Group, LLC. Next, we must determine specifically what term of your probation you allegedly violated. In Alaska, your probation can be taken away for many reasons:
- New criminal charges
- Failed urine test (alcohol or drug use)
- Failure to complete alcohol counseling, anger management, sex offender treatment, or other mandated programs
- Failure to pay fines and court costs
- Failure to check in with your probation officer
- Failure to complete community service
Our team will represent you in your immediate appearance before a magistrate, and again at a probation violation hearing, on whether to revoke or continue your probation. Demonstrating to the court that you take your probation seriously is the best way to convince the judge that you can be trusted to follow your probation conditions. This can be accomplished by paying fines, taking classes, and providing a clean urine sample.
If you are being accused of a new crime, the judge can take you off of probation and impose jail time on the previous charge. The judge does not have to determine whether you are guilty of the new offense to impose jail time. Rather, the judge simply has to determine if the evidence shows that you probably committed the new offense.