Maynes v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Having carefully considered the applicable statutes, we conclude that the trial court was authorized under Kentucky law to impose court costs despite Maynes’s status as an indigent defendant entitled to the services of a public defender.”
• “Without some reasonable basis for believing that the defendant can or will soon be able to pay, the imposition of court costs is indeed improper.”
• this Court presuming that the General Assembly did not intend an absurd result
• this Court presumes that the General Assembly did not intend an absurd result

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).