Protests 67544-K of H. Jacobs & Sons, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing as plain error imposition of $980 in court-appointed attorney fees on a defendant who was sentenced to 36 months in prison
• exercising discretion to correct error imposing $980 in attorney fees where the record contained no evidence of the defendant’s financial resources at sentencing and the defendant was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment
• relying on Mejia-Espinoza, concluding that it was plain error for the trial court to impose court-appointed attorney fees when the only evidence of defendant’s prior employment was that he had “work[ed] on houses, cleaning them” for a specific person “a couple of years ago”
• reversing as plain error imposition of $980 in attorney fees because evidence that the defendant had cleaned houses “a couple of years ago” “does not give rise to any reasonable inference about defendant’s financial resources or employability at the time of sentencing or in the future”
• evidence that defendant had worked cleaning houses for a person “a couple of years ago” was legally insufficient to support an inference that defendant was or could have been able to pay attorney fees
• evidence that the defendant had worked cleaning houses a couple of years prior to sentencing did not give rise to “any reasonable inference about [the] defendant’s financial resources or employability at the time of sentencing or in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).