Whedon v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a trial court may impose fines or costs upon an indigent defendant, but cannot imprison the indigent defendant for failure to pay the fines or costs
• holding that “when fines or costs are imposed upon an indigent defendant, such a person may not be imprisoned for failure to pay the fines or costs”
• holding that “when fines or costs are imposed upon an indigent defendant, such a person may not be imprisoned for failure to pay the fines or costs”
• noting that the legislature requires indigency hearing both as to the imposition of fines, Indiana Code Section 35-38-1-18, and costs, Indiana Code Section 33-19-2-3 (the predecessor to Indiana Code Section 33-37-2-3)
• noting that the legislature requires indi-gency hearing both as to the imposition of fines, Indiana Code Section 35-38-1-18, and costs, Indiana Code Section 33-19-2-3 (the predecessor to Indiana Code Section 33-37-2-3)
• explaining that “a defendant’s financial resources are more appropriately determined not at the time of initial sentencing but at the conclusion of incarceration, thus allowing consideration of whether the defendant may have accumulated assets through inheritance or otherwise”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).