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Confinement for Nonpayment Without Willfulness Violates Due Process
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2003, page 22
Confinement for Nonpayment Without Willfulness Violates Due Process, Washington Courts Have 10 Years to Collect Fines
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Limitations,
Restitution.
Location:
Washington.
The Supreme Court of the State of Washington, sitting en banc, held that defendants cannot be jailed for failure to pay fines, in the absence of a finding that the failure was willful. The …
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