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California Probation Issues: Modification and Termination

By Walin & Klarich

The Court Has Authority to Modify Probation at Any Time During the Probationary Term ?Success Requires the Knowledge and Skill of an Experienced Criminal Defense Attorney Penal Code section 1203.3 provides in pertinent part as follows: (a) ?The court shall have authority at anytime during the term of probation to revoke, modify, or change its order of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence. The court may at any time when the ends of justice will be served thereby, and when good conduct and reform of the person so held on probation shall warrant it, terminate the period of probation, and discharge the person so held.? The trial court is therefore authorized, during the time of probation upon proper showing, to modify probation. People v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).