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Dear Sirs:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to assessment of fees on criminal defendants under R.S. 16:16 and R.S. 16:16.1. You indicate there is some controversy when and under what conditions fees should be imposed under either or both of these statutes.

You ask under these two statutes how fees should be imposed in the following instances:

1) If a defendant is found guilty;

2) If a defendant pleads guilty;

3) If a defendant's bond is ordered forfeited, but no judgment of bond forfeiture has been rendered, but the order of forfeiture is…