People v. Evers
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Evers pled guilty to assault on a police officer with a firearm after being arrested in connection with a string of residential burglaries. At sentencing, the trial court ordered Evers to pay restitution to two victims and assessed a 15 percent administrative fee on the restitution amounts. The court also imposed a $10,000 restitution fine and imposed but suspended a $10,000 parole restitution fine. The court declined Evers’ request to reduce the two restitution fines by applying a statutory formula and concluded that, under the circumstances, the maximum fines were warranted.
The court of appeal reversed the imposition of the 15 percent administrative fee, which was invalid because the statute pursuant to which it was imposed was repealed before the date of Evers’s sentencing. The court otherwise affirmed. Evers forfeited his argument that the restitution fines were unconstitutional under People v. Dueñas (2019) and similar cases requiring sentencing courts to take into account a defendant’s ability to pay. The forfeiture was not cured by Evers submitting two informal post-judgment motions to the trial court under Penal Code section 1237.2.
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