probation
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Gene Levoff, a former senior lawyer at Apple, pleaded guilty in 2022 to trading on inside information about Apple’s quarterly performance and was sentenced to four years of probation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
For prisoners to successfully rehabilitate, she says "probation, support and services need to come together because I think the communication between A and B is never done properly".
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Earlier in 2024, the Herald said, Kapri spent two months in the Miami Federal Detention Center after violating probation in the 2019 weapons case in which the sentence was commuted.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
A court in Ventura sentenced the 44-year-old to 12 months' probation, her lawyer Michael Goldstein said.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
There are nearly six million people on probation or on parole.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing probation
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