Legal Question in Criminal Law in Florida

I NEED ADVICE!! I have never been in trouble with the law but in the past year, I have been put on probation(1 year) in another county for 1 count of misdemeanor drug paraphenalia.When I was arrested for that out of town, I found out in my county I live in, I had 17 felony warrants for obtaining perscription (doctor shopping). This has been going on for 3 months. The out of county paraphenalia charge, I violated probation on a technical (drug test).I have the misdemeanor warrant out for me ,out of town and I go to my local court coming up in sept for the doctor shopping.I have never been on probation and they are talking about 2-3years of probation in my home town.Im out on a 50,000$$ bond for my home town charges for the felonies and have a warrant for the out of town charges,misdemeanor.I dont know what to do first.If I turn myself in to the out of town warrant,they(police dept/jail) will not bring me back for court and I will have a failure to appear on the felony charges and $50,000.Im thinking of going to court like normal in sept.. Im prepairing for the out of county people to arrest me then.Will they let me go in front of the judge first?I dont know what to do, the misdemeanor warrant IS important but the felony case is most important.WHAT DO I DO, WHO DO I TALK TO,---The felonies have been dropped to 2 charges and the last court hearing, my public deffender was saying good things.Will that all change now I have violated out of county probation on misdemeanor and Im going to be put on felony probation?Please, thank you for any advice you can offer.Thanks again.


Asked on 8/17/10, 6:53 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Craig Epifanio Craig Epifanio, P.A.

You need to talk to your public defender or if you can afford one, a private attorney. You can only be in violation of the offenses (the doctor shopping) happened AFTER you were placed on probation. In other words if you pled to probation on 8/1/10 but committed the offense on 7/31/10, the day before you went to court to plea, then you can't be in violation (although that would not look very good). Talk to your attorney.

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Answered on 8/23/10, 2:05 pm


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