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  • 03-10-2006, 11:28 AM
    NeedHelpInMI
    Michigan Probation Violation Proceedings
    I was placed on Probation for 42 months for a FTD (Financial Transaction Device) Illegal Use. In my guide lines for probation, I was to seek full time work, and had these restrictions. I could not work in retail sales, medical information, or personal information. I lived outside the county the probation was issued, so I saw a Probation Officer in the county I lived. I showed up to all my report dates, paid my restitution in full, informed the PO of my work and income. During this time, I married, I have a great job, and we just purchased a home about two years ago. About the 40th Month into my Probation, the Probation Officer from the original county Violated me, had me arrested and put a $5000.00 CA Bond on me. After 2 weeks in jail, I was able to pay the Bond, and then started a very long process of dates scheduled for a PV Hearing. After 14 Ajournments, 1 1/2 years, and an additional 9 months added to my Probation, not to mention every 2 weeks having to report, Come to find out, the probation officer from the original county found out that I had help a person place an order that was processed on-line. Because this person gave me their "Personal Information" to fill in the order form, This was the grounds for the Probation Violation. I was found guilty because of the two words in my rules, Personal Information. How can such a rule be even placed. There is nothing I would have been able to do that does not have some type of personal information. No work could be done, (Examples: Paper Route requires names and addresses, Fast Food / Restaraunts take credit cards or checks, Obviously no Retail Sales, so there goes gas stations, food stores. Even working on our church directory I would have violated my Probation because I would have names, phone numbers, addresses, and e-mails.) After serving so long on Probation, all fines paid, and such a very Grey area as in "Personal Information" What type of out come would the Judge do for sentensing? Am I going to loose all that the Lord Blessed me with because I helped someone and saw or typed Personal Information? It was never used criminally?
  • 03-10-2006, 02:43 PM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Why did this come to the attention of the police? Is it that the friend you helped was arrested for his actions in relation to the transaction, and ratted you out?
  • 03-11-2006, 06:49 AM
    NeedHelpInMI
    This was brought to the attention of the Probation Officer in the county the probation originated by reviewing the information that was reported to the Probation officer I report too in the county I live. Not to mention, The Probation Officer I report to says that the original Probation Officer is a "real peice of work and would violate his own mother if he could". I did was I was suppost to do by reporting the work I did to the reporting agent. The Main Probation Officer in the Original County, who doesn't even see me, is the one who violated me, to my understanding, just because he can. That was his comment when I asked him why he violated me when we were in court.
  • 03-11-2006, 01:48 PM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Probation Violation
    So it was a condition of your probation that you not engage in online transactions involving personal information, you did so anyway (in what you believe to be a very technical violation), then you told your probation officer about it?
  • 03-11-2006, 03:44 PM
    NeedHelpInMI
    I was never told I could not do online transactions. To my understanding, it would be for me to obtain someones personal information, such as a credit card, and use it for my own purpose. I never thought of it as helping a person place an order online for their own purpose. But because I did that, I came in contact with someone else personal information. When I worked on our church directory and was filling in the information provided by the members of the church for the directory such as names, numbers, addresses, e-mails, pictures, etc, this too was in violation of my probation guide lines. I never thought of it in this way. My reporting Probation Officer never saw it in a bad way either, because I was not doing any criminal intent. But the Original Probation Officer saw it differently. He Put "ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION" according to the Original Probation Officer, if I were to walk down the road and looked at a mail box with a name and address on it, I was in Violation. Isn't that just a little to Harsh? I would have to be locked up in my house never coming in contact with anyone, just to avoid coming into contact with someone elses "Personal Information"
  • 03-11-2006, 06:29 PM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Defending Against a Probation Violation Charge
    The judge may well be sympathetic to your position, but I think you should get help from a lawyer to straighten things out. If you cannot afford a lawyer you should be eligible for a court-appointed lawyer.
  • 08-05-2006, 09:36 AM
    mchelfl
    Re: Michigan Probation Violation Proceedings
    ow did she find out you left town?
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