Outcomes can vary significantly based upon such factors as your record, the facts of your case, the policies of the judge, prosecutor and probation office, and the personal views of your probation officer. Some probation officers are very accommodating if they believe that there has been a good faith effort to comply with the terms of probation and that the defendant is on the right track; others can be much more insistent that a probation order must be followed to the letter. If this is nonsupervised probation -- that is, if you were ordered to fulfill certain requirements without the supervision of a probation officer with the court verifying at the end of the term that you fulfilled those requirements -- it can be very difficult to predict what a given prosecutor might recommend or what a given judge may do without knowing what they have done in similar cases. It's thus important to consult with local counsel.

