Community Supervision (probation) is a double-edged punishment. A defendant can avoid confinement by being placed on probation; however, if that same defendant violates one of the many terms and conditions of community supervision, the State may seek to impose the confinement that was once avoided by probation. A violation does not have to be a new criminal offense; it can include "technical" violations.

Although the defendant on community supervision may have plead to the original criminal offense, they still have substantial rights in a revocation of community supervision. Probation Revocations are serious threats to a probationer's liberty. First, if the probationer received "deferred adjudication" community supervision, at a revocation hearing the probationer is exposed to the full-range of punishment of the original criminal offense. This is in contrast to "straight" community supervision, which is limited to the jail/prison sentence that was assessed at the original plea bargain.

Due to the many circumstances and mitigating factors involved with a probation revocation that a probationer would benefit from an aggressive, experience trial attorney.