Does the D.A. take school in consideration?

Question

Does the D.A. take school into consideration?..Here's the situation..The offender committed a felony crime..Let's say an aggravated ..The offender's school year is about to come up in Aug. 2006 and his preliminary hearing is in Sept. 2006..He's planning on taking a plea bargain ( A Deal), which would most likely be boot camp or jail time. and on top of that probation..The question is, knowing that he starts school and AUG. 2006 and his hearing is in SEPT 2006, could the D.A. make out a way to where the penalty won't effect the offender's schooling?..can they subsitute boot camp or jail time with counseling or community service which will make it convient for the offender to make it through his full school year?..please give accurate feedback.. thank you

Answer 1

The DA takes schooling into consideration, but it isn't the overweening consideration. The seriousness of the crime, and the offender's background will dictate how much weight is given to the offender's schooling considerations. The court can substitute counseling, community service or even a suspended sentence, but it depends on the totality of the circumstances

Answer 2

The DA and the judge can take almost anything into consideration. It is not unusual for school to be considered. I just had a client get 28 days in county. Serve two weeks at the end of May (Before summer session started) and two weeks at Christmas.

Answer 3

The DA and/or judge can take that into consideration. Your friend may even be sentenced to "weekends" where he has to report to jail on Friday night and gets out again on Sunday night. Lots of possibilities depending on the severity of the crime.

Answer 4

Yes, this can be taken into consideration. Sometimes they will issue sentences of two weeks at a time spaced three or four months apart. So they might do that and fit it into vacation times.