“Judge Sends Probationer to State Jail, Then Gives Him 5 More Years!”

In this real courtroom hearing, Judge John Stevens Jr. deals with defendant Sindjin Trent Mallard, who is facing four motions to revoke probation plus a new burglary of a building case.
The judge goes through the second amended motions to revoke and focuses on one key violation: Mallard failed to report to the probation office from August 2024 through May 2025—“a block of a year.” The defendant pleads true to that allegation in all four cases, knowing it’s enough to send him to state jail.
Judge Stevens then revokes probation in all four older cases and sentences Mallard to 2 years in the state jail on each, to run concurrently. Mallard will receive credit for the time he has already served, but the revocations are official.
Next, the court takes up a new indictment for burglary of a building (24CR1681). Under a plea agreement, Mallard pleads guilty, gets 2 years state jail suspended, and is placed on 5 years of probation with restitution of $34,723 spread across multiple victims from different cases. The judge reads each victim’s name and the exact amount owed into the record, then tells Mallard that his “work is cut out” for him and that paying these people back is “morally and legally the right thing to do.”

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This video shows:

How a probation revocation works in real time

Why failing to report can trigger state jail sentences

How restitution can be combined from several cases into one probation term

The balance between punishment, second chances, and paying victims back

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