Tate v. Short, No. 324 (U.S. Supreme Court) (401 U.S. 395; 91 S.Ct. 668) (March 2, 1971) (Justice Brennan)
Here the Court held that the State cannot "impos[e] a fine as a sentence and then automatically conver[t] it into a jail term solely because the defendant is indigent and cannot forthwith pay the fine in full" (id., at 398).
In this case the petitioner accumulated fines of $425 on ...
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