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Depends on what else gets lumped onto the violation. Violations are problematic, the court has less urgency for a decision to be made. They are fine with letting the offender sitting for a while since they took the court's leniency for granted. He might end up with a slap on the wrist or he could be sent back to finish part or all of the remaining time on the original sentence.

Without knowing anything about the new charges, we would not be able to give you much advice. The 84 days might be for the charge he was paroled on? New charge may bring more time? We are not certain, if you have more information about the new charges we would be happy to look at it again.

The violation is related to the original sentence. DUI is looked at differently that most violations but the penalty still might result in doing all or a part of the sentence that he's working off

To be honest, there are no "signs" pointing to success or failure in a parole hearing. They all take time to process and nothing speeds up the decision. Parole is a waiting game, but on a 20 year sentence, we would err on the side of caution and ask you to be patient.

He will have to get permission from the state of Florida to transfer his probation to Tennessee. The Probation Office would be the department to handle such a request. The rules will be very similar if not exactly the same. He will have his reporting duties overseen by the PO in Tennessee. The Office will want to visit your home looking for a stable and drug free home in an area free of known criminal activities.

Since we are not certain of the state in question, this seems like a parole provision that he he referring to. The judge would have had to put parole as an option on the Judgement and Committment Order for him to be eligible. With a second degree murder charge, we are dubious. If you have any other information on the case, we would be happy to look into it further.

Parole is a process that is hard to predict outcomes for. Getting paroled on your first Board encounter is not easy. If we said "no" for every time someone asked "will I get out my first time?"; we would be right 90% of the time. If the crime was non-violent, the Board is more likely to take a chance on setting them free early. Since we know nothing more about him, his case, his criminal history and how he is

The probation officer and the original judge will make that decision. The factors will be the the nature of the original offense and the terms of his release and probation. The DUI is VERY problematic and our expectation would be that he would have to do the remaining time left on the original sentence and pray he does not get another charge for the dangerous DUI

On a violation with possession, we think that they will make him sit there for quite awhile, maybe 2-3 months before he hears anything.