Opinion ID: 1384715
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Heading: assessed attorney's fees and costs in sentence

Text: I concur in deletion of attorney's fees and witness costs from appellant's sentence. Observing that the legislature has more recently reexamined the subject in passage of the present statute, § 7-11-505, W.S. 1977, effective May 22, 1987, it is not now timely to consider the constitutional issues implicit in incarceration for debt if ability to pay is absent. To be noted, however, is that any statutory authorization or constitutional justification is lacking for the procedure presented here, where the accused defendant without resources is ordered to make monthly payments during the course of defense in order to be afforded the constitutional right of representation. People v. Cozad, 158 Ill. App.3d 664, 110 Ill.Dec. 376, 511 N.E.2d 211, appeal denied 116 Ill.2d 564, 113 Ill.Dec. 306, 515 N.E.2d 115 (1987); State v. Henry, Tenn. Crim. App., 733 S.W.2d 127 (1987). This was particularly true since the defendant was unemployed. Dryden v. State, Wyo., 535 P.2d 483 (1975).