What is the difference between probation and deferred adjudication?
Probation results from a guilty finding and from a suspended sentence. Upon fulfilling the probation requirements, you will not be sent to prison or jail. In Deferred Adjudication, the Judge finds that there is sufficient evidence to find you guilty, but defers a guilty finding while he places you on community supervision, i.e. probation. In a regular probation, the maximum the Judge can sentence you to in prison is the number of years that you were given on probation. For example if you are on a straight probation for a felony DWI and you received five years probation, the maximum amount of time you can receive in prison if you are revoked is five years.
