Will a speeding ticket hurt my chances of getting off probation early or successfully completing full term?

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by Grant St. Jullian III

February 5, 2016

Asked 2/4/2016 – Temple, TX

Received a speeding ticket will this hurt chances of coming off of probation early?

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Depends on what you are on probation for. If it is a driving offense, then yes, it will probably hurt. For any other offense, a conviction for a speeding ticket is technically a violation of probation, but as a practical matter, it probably won’t affect your probation status one way or the other. Get a local traffic attorney to try to keep the ticket from becoming a conviction, just to be safe.

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Grant St. Jullian III

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering – 1979 Univ. of Pennsylvania
Doctor of Jurisprudence 1982 University of Texas @ Austin
Licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas since 1982.

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