Does an order to pay a defendant's attorney fees have to be struck from the abstract?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Burke, C076763 (Cal. App. 2015):
We agree that because the trial court found that defendant did not have the ability to pay attorney fees and declined to order any payment at sentencing, the order to pay
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contained in the abstract should be stricken. (See People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185-186.)
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