My husband was placed on 5yrs of Community Corrections in July of this year after pleading guilty to a possesion (Class D) felony. To make a really long story short, he checked in with the community corrections officer on 10-26-20 and taken into custody by way of bench warrant for failure to comply with CCP. His revocation hearing was on 11-5-20 and was in fact revoked to serve remainder sentence in confinement with AL Dept. of Corr. However, on 11-6-2020 I received a letter here at our home (that is dated 11-3-20) stating he has a mandated CRO appointment on 12-14-20. (It says this is mandated because of the drug possesion charge.) I'm simply confused because there was not any new charges acquired in 11-2020 simply a violation. So are they just super behind in mailing this letter or are they giving him a chance to apply for CRO diversion or does his sentence to ADOC trump all of this?
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