Law Applicable to Probation

A.R.S. 13-901. F. "When granting probation the court may require that the defendant be imprisoned in the county jail at whatever time or intervals."

Discovery is available, Kanuck v. Meehan, 165 Ariz. 282 (Ariz.App. 1990).

Reliable hearsay is admissible, State v. Portis, 187 Ariz. 336 (Ariz.App. 1992).

No urine sample can equal dismissal, Mageary v. Board, 171 Ariz. 193 (Ariz.App. 1992).

The probationer is prejudiced when he loses an opportunity to have a prison sentence run concurrent with a probation violation, State v. Adler, 189 Ariz. 280 (Ariz. 1997).

Ariz.R.Crim.P. 27.2. explains that the probationer "at any time prior to absolute discharge" can move to modify a condition or conditions of probation.

Ariz.R.Crim.P. 27.3. explains that the probationer "at any time prior to absolute discharge" may move to terminate probation.

"Absent... approved continuances, Rule 27.7 establishes a twenty-one to forty-seven day period from... arrest on a warrant in probation revocation proceeding to... [d]isposition (State v. Flemming, 184 Ariz. 110, Versuslaw paragraph 43 (Ariz. 1995))."

Ariz.R.Crim.P. 27.7.b. (3) explains that the government must establish a probation violation by a preponderance "of the evidence." A "preponderance of the evidence... requires... the... contested fact to be more probable than not (In re Juvenile Action No. J-84984, 138 Ariz. 282, 283 (Ariz. 1983))."

If the probationer violates intensive probation with a new felony offense reinstatement is not available, A.R.S. 13-917 (B).