HB130 Alabama 2011 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Probation, revocation and suspension, technical violations classified on administrative violations, eligible offender and nonviolent offender defined, Secs. 15-22-54, 15-22-54.1 am'd.; Act 2010-753, 2010 Reg. Sess. am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would clarify that a sentencing court has jurisdiction to sentence a defendant to probation for the lesser of five years or the remainder of the defendant's sentence subsequent to revoking the probation for a violation of the conditions of probation</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would define an administrative violation and reclassify a technical violation of probation as an administrative violation of probation</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would redefine an eligible offender to include an eligible offender who on two or more previous occasions has not been found by a court to be in violation of any conditions of the current probation and to delete the requirement that an eligible offender must have performed the conditions of probation for a consecutive six-month period</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would define a nonviolent offender</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide that the trial court does not have to consider a successive petition for resentencing unless the petition raises new grounds for consideration and that a successive petition is deemed denied by operation of law 30 days after it is filed</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 15-22-54 and 15-22-54.1, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended and added to the Code of Alabama 1975, by Act 2010-753 (Acts 2010, p. 1905), to further provide for the revocation and suspension of probation; to define an administrative violation, eligible offender, nonviolent offender, and new offense; and to further provide when a successive petition for resentencing may be considered. </p>

Subjects

Crimes and Offenses