Legal Opinion
Wood v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 4, 1981No. 79-6027PublishedCited by 1,032 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
Petitioners in this case are three persons who were convicted of distributing obscene materials and sentenced to periods of probation on the condition that they make regular installment payments toward the satisfaction of substantial fines. Because they failed to make these payments, their probations were revoked by the Georgia court, and they are now claiming that these revocations discriminated against them on the basis of wealth in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Since the record in this case *263suggests that petitioners may be in their present…
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