State v. Blaise’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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1. “Defendant was on probation for two years, from October 2007 to October 2009. The probation condition authorized the probation officer to set a payment schedule for repayment during that period. The probation contract itemized the amount defendant owed but failed to establish a payment schedule. There was no testimony that a payment schedule was established. In the absence of a payment schedule, and well before the expiration of defendant's probation, there was no support for the claim that defendant had violated the probation condition by failing to make a payment before the VOP complaint was filed. We cannot find a violation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. J.S.

2. “[w]e cannot know what sentence the court might have imposed if it had found fewer probation violations”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. J.S.