Supreme Court of California

Court of appeals's imposition of mandatory laboratory analysis fees against defendant was proper, even when such fees were not levied by the trial court and the government did not object; trial court did not have discretion to waive the fees under Penal Code section 1464(d).

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2002
• Published 05/23/2002

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Laura P. Gordon and Richard Lennon, Los Angeles, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack and Pamela C. Hamanka, Assistant Attorneys General, Kenneth C. Byrne, Lance E. Winters and David A. Voet, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.