Per Curiam.
Overriding all other issues involved in this case is the question of whether imprisonment for nonpayment of a fine is, when applied to an indigent, a denial of equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution— regardless of whether credit toward payment of the fine be established by statutory law or by judicial rule, and regardless of the monetary amount of such credit.
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