FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The city of Coalinga will pay legal fees for convicted sexual predators whose votes it tried to exclude from a 2016 sales tax election.
Many of the sex offenders at Coalinga State Hospital are eligible to vote because they've already served prison terms and parole.
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Coalinga annexed the state hospital, so those offenders are city voters.
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In 2016, their votes helped defeat Measure C 127-50, and Coalinga's city council sued to reverse it and lost.
On Wednesday, the California State Supreme Court ordered the city to pay legal fees from the lawsuit.