Don_keebals
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida, but arrested in Michigan. I traveled up to michigan earlier this year to go on a turkey hunt with a buddy of mine. While I was here, I was arrested and charged with a couple of different offenses. I served 4 days in jail before bailing myself out. As a condition of my bond, I'm not allowed to leave the state and, according to my lawyer, I'm facing a year of probation and probably jail time. Being a resident of Florida, I have a job, wife, kids, and a home in the sunshine state. The past few months, I've been living in a hotel room here in MI (cooperating with the conditions of my bond) awaiting my court dates. I'm wondering... Do I have ANY rights being from another state? If I'm sentenced to a year probation and jail time, will I have to move my family up here and find another job (practically impossible)? Do they really expect me to stay here in Michigan until this is all resolved? I don't understand how a court system could do this to someone. If I'm required to stay here to serve my sentence, it will be the equivalent of setting me up for failure (with no job, and no place to live). Being a non-resident to the state, I must have some kind of rights for transfer, right? I don't see the humanity in locking someone to a specific state if they were arrested there... Thank you for any help, I truly appreciate it!