What is the current state of California Probation Guidelines for revocation of probation?

While defendant's probation violations did not amount to additional serious criminal acts, the evidence viewed in its entirety amply supports the trial court's decision to revoke probation. "Probation may be revoked whenever the probationer has demonstrated to the trial court that he is unfit to be at large." (People v. Pinon (1973) 35 Cal.App.3d 120, 123.) The current burglary offenses were hardly trivial, and defendant has exhibited a nearly unrelenting criminal history of 13 prior convictions and poor performance on previous grants of probation or parole over the course of many years. The trial court departed from the probation department's recommendation by granting defendant probation in the first place, and indicated that any noncompliance with

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