Legal Question in Criminal Law in Oklahoma

If I was convicted of conceiling stolen property and given community service but, moved out of state before I was to start service. Does this mean I am a felon if they had an application to acclerate deferred sentence?


Asked on 8/23/09, 7:54 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Jay Ramey Jay K. Ramey, Attorney at Law

Your question does not make sense. You start out by saying you were "convicted" of concealing stolen property. However, you later talk about a deferred sentence. Accordingly, if you received a deferred sentence you were never convicted of anything. Your sentencing has been deferred to a future date.

If you left without completing your community service, an Application to Accelerate your deferred sentence, if that is what you were on, has probably been filed and a warrant has probably been issued. You still have not been convicted and sentenced of the crime. As soon as you are arrested and sent back to Oklahoma, the court can and probably will accelerate your deferred sentence to a conviction, unless you have a skilled attorney that can convince the court to keep you on a deferred.

If you are able to evade that law and never get arrested, you have a deferred review date in sometime in the future. If you do not appear in court on that date and show the court you have completed your work hours and any other conditions of probation, the court will convict you of the crime then, and you will not get an expungement.

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Answered on 8/28/09, 10:32 pm


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