Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

You have a right to reject probation. You can request that the case be placed on the calendar and ask the judge to impose what's known as a "terminal sentence."

However, if you're charged with a felony, your sentence would be a prison term... and you would be released on parole, which is kind of like probation, only more stringent. What's more, you can't refuse parole.

When you became eligible for parole, you could decline to sign the terms of parole, which would result in a one-year revocation. You would come up three more times, and could decline each of those. By the time you were done, that would be four years of revocation in addition to the original prison sentence.