Reyes v. State

Summary

The court upheld the constitutionality of the statute authorizing sentencing courts to consider a defendant’s deportability when deciding whether to probate a sentence. It held that undocumented immigrants are not a suspect class for these claims, so rational-basis review applied, and the statute was rationally related to the State’s legitimate interest in ensuring complete execution of criminal sentences. The court also held that the trial court did not violate due process or equal protection by declining to probate any part of Reyes’s sentence because deportation could otherwise prevent him from serving it.