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Texas Criminal Court Fees are a Tax on Poor Defendants

Loaded on March 15, 2014 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News March, 2014, page 28
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Filing Fees, Booking Fees. Location: Texas.
by Matt Clarke

The Texas legislature has erected such a hodgepodge of criminal court fees that even the court administrators and clerks don’t know how to apply them. These fees, which are frequently not used for their intended purposes, amount to a hidden tax on the poorest members of society …

 

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