People v. Letterlough

OPINION OF THE COURT

Titone, J.

Our sentencing courts continually confront the important task of fashioning conditions of probationary sentences to rehabilitate those who have committed the often-habitual crime of driving while intoxicated. This case presents the Court with the question whether, as a condition of probation, a court may order the defendant to affix to the license plate of any vehicle he drives a fluorescent sign stating "convicted dwi.” We answer this question in the negative both because the condition is not reasonably related to defendant’s rehabilitation, and, more generally,…