State v. Brown

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction and assigns error solely to the portion of the judgment that requires her to pay $600 for court-appointed attorney fees. Although defendant did not object at sentencing, she argues on appeal that the trial court plainly erred by imposing those attorney fees because the record contains no evidence defendant “is or may be able to pay” them. The state concedes that the record contains no such evidence and that “the award was plainly erroneous.”1 Nevertheless, the state argues that “the trial court’s error is not properly subject to review because…