California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Svet, E068713 (Cal. App. 2018):
A grant of probation is an act of clemency in lieu of punishment. (People v. Moran (2016) 1 Cal.5th 398, 402 (Moran).) Probation is a privilege, and not a right. A court has broad discretion to impose "reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, . . . and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer . . . ." (Pen. Code, 1203.1, subd. (j); People v. Carbajal (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1114, 1121.) "If a probation condition serves to rehabilitate and protect public safety, the condition may 'impinge upon a constitutional right
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