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Defense Attorney Tracey Wood Drunk Driving Attorney Tracey Wood is a Super Lawyer in Wisconsin
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     Attorney Tracey A. Wood , owner of Tracey Wood & Associates is an aggressive criminal defense attorney in Madison, Wisconsin.    She focuses her practice on defending the rights of individuals whether they are charged with drunken driving or more severe criminal charges including murder, sex crimes in Wisconsin, federal conspiracy or seeking an expungement of a previous conviction.
   She is known throughout the legal community as the foremost authority on Wisconsin OWI DUI laws and has been hailed for her defenses and successful trial and case record.
   Ms. Wood has been pioneering new frontiers for women in law since she entered practice in 1992. She is the first attorney from Wisconsin ever appointed as a Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor, and first Wisconsin attorney to be appointed to the Board of Regents to the National College for DUI Defense held at Harvard Law School. She chairs the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Strike Force for the state's largest association for criminal defense lawyers and has previously served as the President of that organization. She has authored several articles on defense against drunk driving charges including Challenging Prior Under Influence Convictions, an article discussing U.S. v. Gant in the Wisconsin Law Journal, and she has contributed to the national DUI attorneys' bible by Taylor & Oberman, entitled "Drunk Driving Defense".
   She has also won many appeals in both the Wisconsin Appellate System (most recently City of Beloit v. Steven Herbst) and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago (i.e. U.S. v. Andres Perez).

Super Lawyer Tracey Wood defends people charged with OWI or DUI
Super Lawyer Tracey Wood defends people charged with OWI or DUI
Super Lawyer Tracey Wood defends people charged with OWI or DUI
NCDD National College for DUI Defense: Tracey Wood
(608) 350-1004

Wisconsin Probation



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Probation can be ordered by a Wisconsin Circuit Court as an alternative to prison or jail sentences, in conjunction with less prison or jail time, or as a condition of parole or other jail or prison term releases. During probation, the probationee (person on probation) is supervised by a probation officer, allowed to serve probation at home, and given conditions of probation that must be met or probation can revoked. Probation places the probationee into the custody of a probation officer.

Prosecuting attorneys push probation as an easy alternative, but it is not. Probation should not be taken lightly.

Probation Rules - Conditions of Probation

Probation is intended to restrict a person's liberties. A court can order a person to serve a term of probation for many years, as well as extend an existing probation order. A court can also (and usually does) order an entire list of “conditions” or rules that one must abide by while on probation.

While conditions of probation are entirely at the court's discretion, the conditions should be relevant to the crime. Whenever unreasonable probationary conditions are imposed, your criminal defense attorney can help you. Examples of typical probationary conditions are listed below.
•Fines. In addition to the fines imposed by a court for a criminal conviction, a probation officer is paid a fee to watch the person who is on probation. Those fees must be paid to the officer each month. A failure to pay the fees usually results in a revocation of probation.
•Curfews. For example, a probation condition or probation officer may require the person on probation to be at home at a certain time each day.
•Work. Probationary conditions can include required work hours, as well as the number of hours that a person must work each week.
•Residence. Probation conditions can restrict where a person lives, and in the instances where a person has been convicted of a sexual offense, the conditions can include the distance that a person's residence is from a school or other places where children gather.
•Friends. A court can order a condition of probation that prohibits a person on probation from hanging out with certain friends.
•Decorations. For example, a probation officer may refuse to allow a person who is on probation for a sex offense to decorate for Halloween.

Probation Officer's Limits (Or Rights)

A probation officer has few limits on his authority to direct the behavior and actions of a person whom he supervises under probation rules. A probation officer can revoke freedom and order a person who is on probation into jail for weekends or evenings or until a court hearing for revocation of probation. A probation officer can make life very miserable, mandate curfew times, change curfew times, and restrict friends without court intervention.

In addition to placing restrictions on the life of the person placed on probation, probation also restricts the lives of the people with whom the person on probation lives. A probation officer can visit you at his or her whim, without notice, and without a reason. The probation officer can then search your entire home whether you have a roommate or live alone. If the probation officer finds evidence of a violation to probation, regardless of whether it is your marijuana roach or a roommate's half empty bottle of beer haphazardly left in your room, the probation officer can take action including ordering the person on probation back to jail.

In all instances, a probation officer will be the key witness at any revocation hearing, and play a key role in any alternative to revocation that may be offered or ordered by a court.

Free but professional "first-impression" analysis

If you are under investigation or have been arrested for any crime, or if you have already been convicted of a crime and believe your conviction to be wrong or your sentence too harsh, please call (608) 350-1004 or email the Attorneys at Tracey Wood & Associates right away. An Attorney at Tracey Wood & Associates will provide you with a brief but professional free "first-impression" analysis of your appeal based on the facts that you are able to convey. You can also submit your case online or email the attorneys.




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Please take notice that although the law firm of Tracey Wood & Associates website contains a large amount of accurate and useful legal information about drunk driving, OWI, DUI, Sex Crimes, Expungement and other serious crimes, it is not intended to be used as legal advice. Only an attorney can counsel you on your specific case. Please contact the attorney at Tracey Wood & Associates immediately should you find yourself charged with a Drunk Driving in Wisconsin, a DUI (Driving Under the Influence), OWI (Operating Under the Influence) or any other serious crime in Wisconsin at (608) 350-1004. Even if your researching drunk driving laws or sex crime laws in Wisconsin, Lawyer Tracey Wood can assist you.

Attorney Tracey A. Wood , 6605 University Ave Suite 101 Middleton Wisconsin. (608) 350-1004

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