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Smith v. Wyoming — Premature Willfulness Finding in Probation Revocation Adjudicatory Phase Is Error, But Not Plain Error Without Material Prejudice

The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed a probation revocation, holding that the district court erred by determining willfulness during the adjudicatory phase rather than the dispositional phase—a clear violation of Wyoming’s two-part revocation framework—but that the error did not constitute plain error because Smith suffered no material prejudice: he presented his willfulness arguments before the court’s finding and again at disposition, and an independently established, uncontested violation independently supported revocation.

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