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488 So. 2d 920

488 So.2d 920

11 Fla.L.Weekly 1200

Butterfield v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1986-05-27

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1988

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Relies on Bearden v. Georgia

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Decided 1986-05-27

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PER CURIAM.

¶1This appeal is brought from an order revoking probation and imposing a thirty-day sentence with credit for twenty-five days already served. On a dispositive question we hold that the probationer showed that he had exhausted all reasonable means to pay the costs of supervising his probation and that it was, therefore, fundamentally unfair to revoke probation automatically without considering whether adequate alternative methods of punishment were available. § 948.06(4), Fla.Stat. (1985); Bearden v. Georgia, 461 U.S. 660, 103 S.Ct. 2064, 76 L.Ed.2d 221 (1983).

¶2The order of revocation is reversed and the cause is remanded for further consistent proceedings.

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