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                         COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                        DIVISION ONE

                                                STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE,                                                           D062748

         Plaintiff and Respondent,

         v.                                                           (Super. Ct. No. SCD240590)

JOSE ANTONIO HERNANDEZ,

         Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Laura Halgren,

Judge. Affirmed.

         Jill M. Klein, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

         Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney

General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Eric A. Swenson and Kristine A.

Gutierrez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

         Jose Antonio Hernandez entered a negotiated guilty plea to continuous sexual abuse of a

child under 14 (Pen. Code, § 288.5, subd. (a); count 9) and three counts of committing a lewd

act on a child under 14 with substantial sexual conduct (Pen. Code, §§ 288, subd. (a) &

1203.066, subd. (a)(8); counts 28, 30 & 33). The court sentenced him to a stipulated 28-year
prison term: the 16-year upper term on count 9; the eight-year upper term on count 28 and two

years each (one-third the middle term) on counts 30 and 33. The court imposed a $154

criminal justice administration fee (booking fee) pursuant to Government Code section

29550.1, as recommended in the probation report. Hernandez appeals, contending imposition

of the booking fee violated his right to equal protection because Government Code section

29550.1 does not require a finding of ability to pay, unlike the booking fees set forth in

Government Code sections 29550 and 29550.2, and there is no rational basis for distinguishing

Government Code section 29550.1 from the latter two sections. Alternatively, Hernandez

contends substantial evidence does not support a finding he had the ability to pay the booking

fee.

       Hernandez did not object in the trial court to the imposition of the booking fee. He has

thus forfeited his right to challenge the fee on appeal. (People v. McCullough (2013) 56

Cal.4th 589, 593.) Hernandez suggests that we exercise our discretion to consider the merits of

the equal protection issue. (Ibid.) We decline to do so.

                                         DISPOSITION

       The judgment is affirmed.

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                   MCCONNELL, P. J.

WE CONCUR:

BENKE, J.

MCDONALD, J.

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