Ok, someone please fill me in: I didn't quite understand the finding that was finally taken. I got that Kate doesn't have to go to jail. She got 10 years of...what? My English skills weren't quite enough to understand the whole court procedure^^

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Probation. That means that there watching her to make sure she doesn't do anything bad. Or try to leave the state or anything.

she got 10 years of probation which is one reason she told Jack at the airport "I ain't going back {to the island}"

Also it probably has to do with her son also.

Also she probably has her own personal reasons.

We often hear/see something that seems to be of no importance only to find out later its significance. When the terms of Kate's probation included not leaving California for 10 years, her lawyer encouraged her to decline or bargain for a better deal. Kate took the deal, saying something like "I do ot want to leave CA anyway". This immediately struck me as significant, that accepting this condition would prove to be a big problem in the fututre. I have heard others comment along the lines of - it might present a problem if she decided to go back to the island. Getting back to the island would entail so much risk that violating probation would be the least of her worries.

I think there is more to it than that, but do not know what. So I am asking, if something develops that makes the "no travel" condition of great importance, what will that something be?