No Authority for Immediate Civil Judgments on Criminal Costs and Fines

Published for NC Criminal Law on October 09, 2025.

The practice of ordering a civil judgment for costs and fines at the outset of a criminal case has run its course. That’s the rule from State v. Santana, ___ N.C. App. ___ (2025), which I summarized earlier in the week. To recap, the defendant in Santana was convicted of drug trafficking and other offenses ... Read more

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