California Court of Appeal

Conviction, probation, and fines based on guilty plea to forgery and identity theft is modified to the extent that the imposition of DNA penalty assessments, which were enacted into law after defendant's crimes, violates the state and federal constitutional prohibitions against ex post facto laws.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2008
• Published 01/30/2008

Judges

• ROBIE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Curt R. Zimansky, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Sacramento, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charles A. French, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Stephanie A. Mitchell, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.