Fadelli Concrete Pumping, Inc. v. Appellate Department

Opinion

COTTLE, P. J.

Defendant Fadelli Concrete Pumping, Inc., was convicted in a court trial of violating Vehicle Code section 35551, which prohibits operating a vehicle over certain statutory weight limits without a permit. The municipal court imposed a fíne of $482. The People appealed, claiming that the applicable fine should have been in excess of $22,000, and that the municipal court had no discretion to assess a smaller fine. We hold that under the circumstances presented here, the People may not challenge the allegedly unauthorized sentence imposed by the municipal court in a…