Penright v. State

in which Keasler, Hervey, Alcala, Richardson, Keel, and Walker, JJ. joined.

The court of appeals rejected a constitutional challenge to the consolidated fee statute, Texas Local Government Code § 133.102.1 In his petition for discretionary review, appellant complains that the court of appeals’s decision “failed to explain how the comprehensive rehabilitation fee is a legitimate criminal justice purpose.” In Salinas v. State, we held that the portions of the consolidated fee statute that were allocated to “comprehensive rehabilitation” and “abused children’s counseling” were unconstitutional in…