State v. Franks
Decision Date | 11 August 1981 |
Docket Number | No. 21547,21547 |
Citation | 281 S.E.2d 227,276 S.C. 636 |
Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Parties | The STATE, Respondent, v. Stanley L. FRANKS, Appellant. |
Appellate Defender John L. Sweeny and Asst. Appellate Defender Tara D. Shurling, of S. C. Commission of Appellate Defense, Columbia; and Asst. Public Defender Stephen J. Henry, Greenville, for appellant.
Atty. Gen. Daniel R. McLeod, Asst. Attys. Gen. Kay G. Crowe and Russell D. Ghent and State Atty. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., Columbia, for respondent.
Appellant Stanley L. Franks appeals from an order revoking his probation sentence. We affirm.
The question is whether the Fourth Amendment's requirement that a neutral, detached magistrate issue an arrest warrant renders the arrest warrant in this case, issued by a probation officer pursuant to Section 24-21-450, Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), invalid.
On February 26, 1979 appellant was sentenced to five years imprisonment for attempted housebreaking with intent to commit a crime. The five-year term was suspended upon the service of one year in prison and four years probation. Appellant was released on probation October 1, 1979.
On February 11, 1980 a probation officer issued an arrest warrant pursuant to § 24-21-450, charging appellant with various violations of his probation conditions, among them convictions for drunk and reckless driving.
At the probation revocation hearing appellant's counsel moved to dismiss the warrant on the ground it was not issued by a neutral, detached magistrate as required by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The motion was denied and, following a three day hearing, an order of the revocation was entered. This appeal, arising solely on the issue of the validity of the arrest warrant, followed.
Section 24-21-450 plainly provides for the issuance of an arrest warrant by a probation officer when, in his judgment, a violation of probation conditions has occurred. In pertinent part the statute provides:
(Emphasis added).
Probation is an act of grace extended to one already convicted of a crime at a trial in this state providing the full protection of due process of law. A proceeding for the revocation of this privilege of probation is more in the nature of an extension of the original proceedings than it is a separate criminal prosecution.
While the underlying violations may themselves be criminal offenses, the probation revocation proceeding is not a criminal trial of those charges. See Shaw v. Henderson, 430 F.2d 1116, 1118 (5th Cir. 1970), but a more informal proceeding with respect to notice and proof of the alleged violations. See State v. White, 218 S.C. 130, 61 S.E.2d 754 (1950).
The penalty imposed upon a finding of violation of probation conditions is a forfeiture of the act of grace extended and reimposition of the unserved...
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