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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; Community Supervision</title>
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		<title>TEXAS COMMUNITY SUPERVISION REVISITED</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legislative Rush to Punish “Sex” Offenders Removes Punishment Alternatives, Probation, Unnecessarily Increases Prison Overcrowding

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In 2008 we posted a piece about the restrictions the Texas Legislature had placed on the availability of probation. Historically probation was an alternative to penal incarceration designed to give first offenders and minor offenders a second chance.]]></description>
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		<title>PROBATION ELIGIBILITY: NEW LIMITATIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Juries Can No Longer Recommend Community Supervision When Victim is Child Under 15, Elderly or Disabled

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair 

Community supervision, or probation as most people know it, has been defined by federal courts as an “imprisonment substitute” because the criminal sentence is not served in a penal institution. See: United States v. Elkins, 176 F.3d 1016, 1020 (7th Cir. 1999).]]></description>
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