James Ripps v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• finding revocation unreasonable where defendant “was attempting to adhere to his probation conditions” and “was taking steps to correct the violation” to which he admitted
• court abused discretion in imposing severe sanction given technical nature of violation and other circumstances such as defendant’s poor health
• Trial court abused its discretion by imposing the entire previously-suspended sentence where defendant was terminally ill and was attempting to adhere to his probation conditions
• Ripps attempted in good faith to comply with conditions of probation and had a terminal medical condition
• abuse of discretion found where a very slight violation was unintentionally committed by a sixty-nine-year-old defendant suffering from terminal cancer, who took steps to correct the technical violation upon discovering it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).