Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

The probation department will file a request with the court to have the court issue a warrant for your arrest. The request will state that you failed to report, therefore violating your terms of probation.

If you missed the date to report, you will have to get a new report date from the Judge. If you've had any other issues, I'd recommend having an attorney go for you. Good luck!

It depends on when you were supposed to report, why you were supposed to report, why you missed and how long it's been since you failed to report.

Often, once you're sentenced, the judge will order you to probation to check in. If you fail to make that initial reporting, you could be found in violation and either simply ordered to report and/or given a violation including potential jail time for failing to report.

If you were supposed to check in with your assigned probation officer, but you didn't, they could report that failure to report to the court for the issuance of an arrest warrant and a violation of probation proceedings.

If you were supposed to report to do something (such as drug test) but didn't, they may consider that a failure and/or dirty test.

Without knowing why/when/how, it's tough to answer, but the bottom line is that if you failed to do something you were ordered to do as part of your probation, you could be found in violation and sent to jail/prison/have additional punishment imposed.

Get a lawyer ASAP and get this straightened out before it snowballs and gets worse.

Warrant, arrest, jail, court hearing. If serious about hiring counsel to help in this, and if this is in SoCal courts, feel free to contact me.