California Court of Appeal

Sentence imposing a $200 sex offender fine pursuant to Penal Code section 290.3 is vacated where trial court is unauthorized to impose fines less than the prescribed statutory amount. Case is remanded for the trial court to determine whether to impose a $300 sex offender fine as prescribed in section 290.3(a) and to impose additional mandatory assessments and surcharges.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/14/2008
• Published 03/14/2008

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lynda A. Romero, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Victoria B. Wilson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Noah P. Hill, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.