California Court of Appeal

In a prosecution of defendant for six counts of committing lewd acts upon a child, trial court's imposition of a $30 "court facilities" fee on each of his six convictions is affirmed where: 1) because the scope of section 70373 can be logically construed in only one way - as applying to all criminal convictions, including traffic offenses under the Vehicle Code - the trial court did not err in concluding it applied to defendant's convictions for sex offenses; and 2) because section 70373 is not a punitive statute, either in intent or operation, the imposition of the court facilities fee mandated therein could not constitute a violation of ex post facto principles in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/10/2010
• Published 11/10/2010

Judges

• BEDSWORTH

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David K. Rankin, Edmund G. Brown, Jr.