Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: Weekend Time

The problem with doing that many days on weekends is the amount of time you'll be serving. You'll be doing about 90 days actual. And many judges will not grant weekends because most folks fall off the wagon and miss their report to jail time. So they have to be re-sentenced.

However, all you need to do is ask. It's amazing what you can accomplish in court if someone simply asks the judge.

120 days is a long sentence. And obviously on a relative scale you screwed up probably more than once or really big time. So many of the neat little programs that are available might not be available to you. Like cleaning up the trash in the parks on the weekends. Or working at the jail as a receptionist on the weekends. One of the beach cities here will let you serve the time during the day (you have to go home at night). You wash police cars, pull weeds, and clean up the city dog pond. It's an 8 to 4 job with weekends off. They don't feed you. So you have to bring your own lunch. And they want some really good hard working people that have screwed up on a first time (no drugs) offense. However you don't get 'good time work time credit' and you'll spend the full 120 days working.

Any competent attorney in your area should be able to give you some information on the programs that are available, including the ever popular house arrest with a bracelet option.

See if the judge will not give you some 'community service' time. Like working in a hospital or drug rehab center, or something other than the straight jail time.