The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
Tracy F. ALFORD, Defendant and Appellant.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 3, 2007.
December 3, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John F. Schuck, Palo Alto, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Seth K. Schalit, Morris Lenk, Laurence K. Sullivan and Catherine A Rivlin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
CORRIGAN, J.
Penal Code section 1465.8, subdivision (a)(1)1 requires the imposition of a $20 court security fee "on every conviction for a criminal offense...." The questions here are whether the fee is subject to section 3's general prohibition against retroactive application of a newly enacted law, and whether imposition of the fee for a crime committed before the effective date of the statute violates state and federal prohibitions...
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