Chandler v. State

Princess Chandler appeals from an adjudication of guilt, order revoking community control, and ten-year prison sentence. 1 The issue is whether Ms. Chandler’s failure to make required monthly restitution payments during the period of community control, a condition she accepted as part of a plea colloquy during which she both exhibited and acknowledged a complete understanding of the proceedings, was willful and substantial, based on her post-sentencing claims of mental illness. Ms. Chandler also asserts that the ten-year sentence “demonstrated judicial vindictiveness and violated Ms.…