Court Opinion

ID: 3760485
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 07:17:07.722888+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:41:47.547506
License: Public Domain

I agree with Judge Hoffman as to the disposition of the fourth assignment of error but disagree with the analysis.  I find that appellant's placement with his sister was a condition of his community control.  But a willful violation of the condition is necessary to revoke community control.  There is no finding by the trial court that the violation of the community control condition was willful.  Therefore, I find that community control cannot be revoked.
I seriously considered Judge Gwin's position in his dissent. What is a trial court to do when the conditions of community control are impossible for a defendant to comply with through no fault of the defendant?  But, based upon the current status of the law, I find that it is the trial court's responsibility to find out prior to ordering community control conditioned on the participation of the defendant in a program, whether the defendant is accepted into that program.