There’s absolutely no way this is constitutional. This is obviously an outgrowth of the law that allows lawfirms bringing civil lawsuits to recoup the costs of the court case from the loser - but that was never intended to apply to governments themselves!
It’s one thing for the city to hire private firms to do prosecutions on behalf of a strapped city government. It’s entirely another for the convicted to have to pay the court fees of the government bringing the prosecutions.
So the government charges the taxpayer to write the laws, then hires a lawyer to go after the taxpayer when he breaks those laws and then writes a law to have the taxpayer pay for the court costs when the taxpayer loses.
It’s total madness.
Sounds like the lawyer rigging it so he gets $ from the fines; see this post by vette6387
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3606067/posts?page=7#7