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WOOD v. GEORGIA

No. 79-6027.

450 U.S. 261 (1981)

WOOD ET AL. v. GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn Zell argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners.

John W. Dunsmore, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Robert S. Stubbs II, Executive Assistant Attorney General, Don A. Langham, First Assistant Attorney General, and John C. Walden, Senior Assistant Attorney General.

JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioners in this case are three persons who were convicted of distributing obscene materials and sentenced to periods of probation on the condition that they make regular installment payments toward the satisfaction of substantial fines. Because they failed to make these payments, their probations were revoked by the Georgia court, and they are now claiming that these revocations discriminated against them on the...

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