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People v. Graves

Citations

  • 919 N.E.2d 906
  • 235 Ill. 2d 244
  • 335 Ill. Dec. 881
  • 2009 Ill. LEXIS 1296

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  • holding that a county mental health court fee and a youth diversion/peer court fee were properly viewed as fines
  • holding that a county mental health court fee and a youth diversion/peer court fee were properly viewed as fines
  • holding that a $10 mental-health-court assessment and a $5 youth diversion/peer-court assessment, though labeled in the statute as “fees,” were actually fines because they did not seek to compensate the State “for any costs incurred as the result of prosecuting the defendant”
  • stating that a fee compensates the state for some expenditure incurred in prosecuting the defendant, while a fine is a pecuniary punishment imposed as part of a sentence on a person convicted of a criminal offense
  • holding that a $100 assessment under section 5-1101(d
  • holding that a $100 assessment under section 5-1101(d

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Judges: Karmeier

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