State v. Zimmerman

In this criminal appeal, defendant challenges the sentencing court’s authority to require him to pay $3,000 of a previously suspended $5,000 fine. We affirm.

Following defendant’s conviction of criminally negligent homicide, 1 the trial court sentenced defendant to a presumptive term of 36 months of probation. The court also entered a money judgment ordering defendant to pay a compensatory fine of $5,500 and a noncompensatory fine of $5,000. The court, however, suspended the noncompensatory fine. The court further ordered that defendant “[p]ay fines, fees, costs, assessments, [and]…