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What is a suspended sentence?

April 26, 2017sentence

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What is a suspended sentence?

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The court may decide that a prison sentence is an appropriate punishment for the particular offence, but that the offender should not be sent to prison unless they are convicted of a further offence, within a given period.

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A. In most cases it means that the judge is giving the defendant (probationer) one last chance to get things right and abide by all probation orders. If the defendant succeeds, probation terminates as ordered in court at the time of sentencing. If the defendant violates his/her probation, the suspended sentence will most likely be imposed and the defendant goes to prison.