Generally, you are eligible to attend a traffic school and have the citation masked from your record upon completion of the class if you have not attended traffic school in the state of California in the past 18 months. Your courtesy notice will indicate whether or not you are eligible for the traffic school program.
1 We will mail copies of our arguments to you. After all of the attorneys' arguments, the court will make a written decision.  On average, the Federal court case will take about 18 months. Some cases are shorter; some cases are longer.
There is no such thing as parole in the Federal system any longer. Therefore, if the defendant was sentenced to 120 months (10 years), he would roughly serve 100 months (8.5 years) The one thing about Federal law is that it is very straightforward and to the point. There may be varying circumstance that get you to the sentencing number, but once you are there, it does not falter.