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Case 10-1 Scott Is a 24-Year-Old High School Dropout

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Case 10-1 Scott is a 24-year-old high school dropout. He has been in and out of trouble with the law since he was a teenager, committing mostly public nuisance offenses such as disorderly conduct and public intoxication. His girlfriend just broke up with him because he had noambition in his life and she did not want totake care of him. She threw him out of her apartment. Scott just agreed toplead guilty for the crime of burglary after he broke intohis ex-girlfriend's car tosteal the change that she keeps in the cup-holder.
The defense attorney is worried that sending Scott tojail will only make Scott's situation worse. While his court case was pending, Scott got a job at a local grocery store and has started toclean up his act. The defense attorney would prefer that if Scott were toplead guilty tothe offense, he would not be required toserve any jail time immediately. He prefers that Scott be given a chance toprove himself and only have toserve time in jail if he reoffends. This type of sentence is known as a(n) :

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