Carty v. State

Appellant was convicted of resisting an officer without violence. He was sentenced to probation which included a special condition requiring him to complete a batterer’s intervention program. Appellant contends that this condition is invalid because it is not reasonably related to his rehabilitation. We agree and reverse.

Appellant was originally charged with battery, burglary of a conveyance with assault, and resisting an officer without violence. The jury acquitted him of the battery and burglary charges, but returned a guilty verdict on the resisting charge. Nonetheless, the trial court…