United States v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““[T]he ground of probation declared by the statute is that the court be satisfied 'that the ends of justice and the best interests of the public, as well as of the defendant, will be subserved thereby.’ Probation is wholly discre tionary and of grace, and not at all a right. It is in no sense a bargain. If the judge becomes satisfied that the probation is a failure and the best interests of the public and the defendant are not being subserved, and that different treatment is required, he has the right and the duty to terminate the experiment and let the law take its original course. It may be that the probationer cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have committed a particular crime, and yet his course of conduct along that line may be such as to satisfy the judge that the probation ought to be revoked. Unless the broad discretion to revoke be fully recognized, much greater caution will have to be exercised in extending this grace originally, and the benefits of the act will become greatly restricted. The revocation in this case was not put expressly upon the commission of a crime, but upon the broad ground that the conduct of the probationer had not been good, as required in the conditions of the probation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wink v. State