Question: My son has been incarcerated since May 25, 2010 in Gwinnett county on a shoplifting charge. He does have prior convictions for same offense, and was, in fact, on probation. His probation officer has said that, unless convicted of this charge, he has done the time he would get for the technical violation of not reporting. As yet he has no court date, has not been indicted, and has had no bond hearing at all. The DAs response as to why there is no bond is that he has prior convictions. Is this correct - I was under the impression that there should have been a bond hearing, at least.

Answer: Your son has not had a bond hearing because his attorney has not insisted on having a bond hearing. Of course, the attorney's rationale is: why have a bond hearing if there is a probation hold, because he cannot get out anyway. Now that the probation has expired , if it has in fact expired (you are just believing what the probation officer tells you), the attorney can request a hearing with the hope that the judge grants a bond. If the probation officer just told you anything to get you off of the phone, then your lived one may not able to get out of jail, even with a bond (because there is still a probation hold). Good luck.

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