P. v. Walters
James C. Walters, Jr., raises two issues pertaining to fines, fees and penalty assessments in three cases. In case SCN358801, a jury found Walters guilty of taking and driving a vehicle, buying or receiving a stolen vehicle and possessing a controlled substance for sale. The trial court sentenced Walters to a total prison term of four years eight months. The court imposed a laboratory analysis fee and a criminal drug program fee, and included a penalty assessment on both. Walters contends the trial court improperly imposed penalty assessments on the criminal laboratory analysis fee and a drug program fee. The court also imposed sentence following probation revocation in two earlier cases. In case SCN329905, the court imposed a previously stayed three-year term and ran this concurrently to the sentence imposed for case SCN358801. In case SCN351956 the court imposed a four-year concurrent term.
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