Court Opinion

ID: 9580537
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:05:59.632292+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:21.034875
License: Public Domain

LEVINSON, Judge
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur in the majority opinion except to the extent it vacates those portions of the judgments which purportedly impose attorney fees against Jacobs. The majority reasons that, because Jacobs did not have an opportunity to be heard concerning the number of attorney hours or the total fee, he is entitled to another hearing. This is, in my view, erroneous for two reasons.
*30First, there has been no appeal from, and the record is completely devoid of, any judgments or orders which require Jacobs to pay attorney fees. The criminal judgments on appeal only provide, “[a] civil judgment is to be placed against defendant for attorney fees.” As there is nothing in the record on appeal to suggest what, if anything, the court ever entered on attorney fees, there is likewise nothing for this Court to address. The majority opinion attempts to vacate, in part, an order that may never have been entered; may have actually been entered only after some subsequent notice and hearing; and may require defendant to pay $0. We cannot know because such an order is not before this Court.
Secondly, the trial court has only indicated its intention to enter a subsequent order. In this regard, the trial court did exactly that which our appellate precedent requires: it declined to enter a civil judgment against defendant for an amount certain until some later time when he would have an opportunity to be heard.