State v. Butler

ROBERTS, Justice.

C.T. Lawrence Butler appeals pro se from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Perkins, J.) affirming the District Court (Portland, Mac-Nichol, J.) order denying his motion for relief from judgment. On appeal, Butler challenges the constitutionality of the jail operations surcharge imposed pursuant to 4 M.R.S.A. § 1057(2) (1989), amended by P.L.1991, ch. 303, § 1, as violative of his right to the free exercise of religion, and as an unconstitutional delegation of the Legislature’s taxing power to the judiciary. Because a number of procedural defaults…