Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Fines and Costs
Defendant pled guilty to first degree murder, sentenced to 33 years imprisonment and ordered to pay DNA analysis of $200. Defendant appealed $200 fee, arguing that he already had a DNA sample on file, so court was without authority to order DNA sample or to impose fee. Section 5-4-3 of Unified Code of Corrections requires that a person convicted of a qualifying offense submit specimen and pay $200 analysis fee. Statute does not excuse payment of fee for a defendant whose DNA is already in the database; statute provides a process for expungement of DNA from database; statute cannot be interpreted to mean that a person cannot be required to give DNA sample and to pay $200 fine more than once. (HOLDRIDGE and O'BRIEN, concurring.)