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Bearden Vs. Georgia

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 24, 1983

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  1. Tate Vs. Short US Supreme Court · Mar 02, 1971
  2. GriffIn Vs. Illinois US Supreme Court · Apr 23, 1956
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  3. Roberts Vs. Lavallee US Supreme Court · Oct 23, 1967
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  4. Gagnon Vs. Scarpelli US Supreme Court · May 14, 1973
  5. Morrissey Vs. Brewer US Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1972
  6. Hunter Vs. Dean US Supreme Court · Dec 11, 1978
  7. North Carolina Vs. Pearce US Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1969
  8. Ross Vs. Moffitt US Supreme Court · Jun 17, 1974
  9. Morris Vs. Schoonfield US Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1970
  10. U.S. 660 (1983) U.S. Supreme Court Bearden v. Georgia
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  11. U.S. 660 (1983) Bearden v. Georgia
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  12. for the crime, it may not thereafter imprison a person solely because he lacked the resources to pay it. Williams v. Illinois
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  13. only to persons able to afford a trial transcript, has been applied in numerous other contexts. See, e.g., Douglas v. California
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  14. Mayer v. Chicago
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  15. record to appeal a conviction under a fine-only statute). Most relevant to the issue here is the holding in Williams v. Illinois
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  16. statutory maximum solely because they are too poor to pay the fine. Williams was followed and extended in Tate v. Short
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  17. also recognized limits on the principle of protecting indigents in the criminal justice system. For example, in Ross v. Moffitt
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  18. Page 461 U. S. 665 had no constitutional right to appointed counsel for a discretionary appeal. In United States v. MacCollum
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  19. petition. Due process and equal protection principles converge in the Court's analysis in these cases. See Griffin v. Illinois
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  20. has insisted that a due process approach more accurately captures the competing concerns. See, e.g., Griffin v. Illinois
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  21. Williams v. Illinois
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  22. supra, at 399 U. S. 259 -266 (Harlan, J., concurring). As we recognized in Ross v. Moffitt
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  23. U.S. at 399 U. S. 241 -242. In Tate v. Short
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  24. situation, except that the statutory penalty there permitted only a fine. Quoting from a concurring opinion in Morris v. Schoonfield
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  25. Cf. Zablocki v. Redhail
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  26. the entire background of the defendant, including his employment history and financial resources. See Williams v. New
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  27. York, 337 U. S. 241 , 337 U. S. 250 , and n. 15 (1949). As we said in Williams v. Illinois
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  28. determination by the sentencing court that the State's penological interests do not require imprisonment. See Williams v. Illinois
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  29. Wood v. Georgia
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  30. it unnecessary to imprison. Given the significant interest of the individual in remaining on probation, see Gagnon v. Scarpelli
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  31. the trial court was unauthorized under state law to revoke probation on a ground not stated in the petition, Radcliff v. State
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  32. of probation could result in a longer prison term than the original probationary period, as required by Stephens v. State
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  33. Calhoun v. Couch
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  34. Frazier v. Jordan
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  35. State v. Tackett
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  36. Pedersen v. Blessinger
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  37. considerations of procedural and substantive fairness to probation and parole revocation proceedings. In Morrissey v. Brewer
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  38. Id. at 408 U. S. 484 . We addressed the issue of fundamental fairness more directly in Gagnon v. Scarpelli
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  39. Ibid. In Douglas v. Buder
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  40. on probation once it becomes evident that efforts at controlling his chronic drunken driving have failed. Cf. Powell v. Texas
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  41. Robinson v. California
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  42. of probation when the probationer is without fault in his failure to pay the fine. For example, in United States v. Boswell
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  43. that resulted in his inability to pay -- an entirely legitimate action by the trial court. Accord, United States v. Wilson
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  44. United States v. Taylor
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  45. State v. Huggett
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  46. Huggett v. State
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  47. objectives, will be roughly equivalent to the fine and restitution that the defendant failed to pay. See Wood v. Georgia
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  48. the length of the imprisonment that could be imposed, other than those imposed by the Eighth Amendment. But Williams v. Illinois
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  49. U. S. 235 (1970), and Tate v. Short
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Bearden v. Georgia
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