Jennifer Morgan-Tyra v. Andrei Nikolov

How courts have described this case

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• invalidating a law requiring certain defendants to choose between “a $17 fine or 13 days in jail” because it created two disparately -treated classes defined by wealth without a compelling state interest justifying the practice
• municipal court may not \constitutionally impose a sentence requiring an indigent defendant to pay a fine forthwith or serve a specified number of days in jail\ because \[t]hose with means avoid imprisonment; the indigent cannot escape imprisonment\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).