NOT on probation/parole, but have been ordered to go to drug classes by a domestic judge. Can they test me?
Question by Louie Orama: NOT on probation/parole, but have been ordered to go to drug classes by a domestic judge. Can they test me?
I was on parole until earlier this year and successfully completed. I have a girlfriend with a very aggressive mother and after an infinitesmal amount of episodes, the passive person in me blew up and told her I was going to punch her in her @#$ %&! face when she entered my home. The very next day, I was served with a restraining order. She had her daughter file against me! Ultimately, we went to court and had the P.F.A. dropped, BUT with the stipulation that I attend Domestic Violence classes coupled with D.A.T.S., an acronym for Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services. Now, I will be the first to admit that I take suboxone, and I KNOW I am minimizing, but it keeps me away from heroin, which I haven’t done in approximately 6 years. I see absolutely no problem with them, and will probably do them the rest of my life. It’s about as blunt as I can be. So yes, I plan on being completely recalcitrant because the crazy lady has me taking classes for treating her daughter like a precious stone and in lieu of my altruism to their whole family being innocuous to my well-being, the malevolence of her diabolical mother has me on death row. I have been told that being that there is no law enforcement officer that works there and the fact that I am on neither probation nor parole, it is a scare tactic from the agency itself (D.A.T.S.) Please help…
Best answer:
Answer by pragmatism_rules
Don’t blame someone else for the situation you find yourself in now. You are not the victim here and you brought this upon yourself. Certainly your current situation has nothing to do with your girlfriend’s mother but with you AND your actions. You admit you threatened to punch your girlfriend’s face and guess what, that is a CRIME.
As a condition of dismissing the charges, the judge required you to take certain treatment. And part of that treatment is a requirement for drug testing. You now have two choices. You can submit to the random drug testing, do what else is required of you, and be eventually released all conditions. Or you can go back to the judge and say you refuse to comply with what is ordered. Then the charges will be re-instated and you will probably go to jail. And there, if you refuse drug testing, they will hold you down and take it forcibly. But hey…the choice is your’s.
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