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Example sentences for: probation

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Here Metabolife interjects the following explanatory note: "Nine years ago, Michael Ellis received five years probation for the use of a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking offense committed in 1989 ."
Most felony defendants are repeat offenders; yet, most felony defendants are sentenced not to prison but to probation.
Cocaine use is illegal, but as governor of Texas, he's toughened penalties for people convicted of selling or possessing less than a gram of coke (a crime previously punished by probation).
But the child's mother had fled north, his father was in jail in Washington state, and his grandmother--also on probation for an unnamed offense--was otherwise occupied.
In big cities, the probation caseload of serious and violent juvenile cases has increased rapidly.