State ex rel. Harrison v. Jeane

Granted. The district court erred when, on March 2, 1990, it revoked the probation of indigent relator solely for non-payment of various fees assessed as the conditions of his probation in the absence of specific findings of a willful refusal to pay or consideration of whether alternative forms of punishment were inadequate to satisfy the state’s interest in punishment and deter*483rence. Bearden v. Georgia, 461 U.S. 660, 103 S.Ct. 2064, 76 L.Ed.2d 221 (1983); State v. Duncan, 604 So.2d 1317 (La.1992); State v. Conley, 570 So.2d 1161 (La.1990); State v. Conley, 565 So.2d 424 (La.1990).

Had the…