Court Opinion

ID: 9730594
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:17:11.521794+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:07.693865
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE SCHMIDT, specially concurring in part and dissenting in part: I concur with the majority with the exception of that portion of the opinion holding that defendant is entitled to a monetary credit for time served against the crime stoppers fee. While I also agree that the legislature could have made this clearer, I believe that the crime stoppers fee imposed under section 5 — 6—3(b)(13) (730 ILCS 5/5 — 6— 3(b) (13) (West 2000)) qualifies as a fee or cost as opposed to a fine. I cannot think of any other reason the legislature enacted this statute except to defray the costs of local anti-crime programs. Therefore, I see this section as analogous to the laboratory fee statute and would deny defendant credit against the crime stoppers fee as well as the laboratory analysis fee.