Xochtil Larios entered adulthood with a $3,500 restitution debt to her name after years in the foster and juvenile justice systems. She was determined to move forward, but the restitution debt from a ...

In Ellingburg v United States, to be argued on Oct. 14, the justices will consider whether the ex post facto clause of the Constitution applies to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, which entitles ...

After two criminal defendants with convictions more than a decade old filed challenges implicating a pair of recent Colorado Supreme Court rulings, the state's Court of Appeals has now filled in the ...

In United States v. Razzouk, the Second Circuit (Walker, Carney, Koeltl by designation) considered the meaning of an “offense against property” as used by the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (“MVRA”) ...

On the one hand, restitution is imposed by a court as part of sentencing and adds to a defendant’s post-conviction obligations, which certainly sounds punitive. But the primary purpose of restitution ...

SULA: N TONIGHT, ARE VICTIMS BEING VICTIMIZED AGAIN IN NEW ORLEANS PARISH? WD INVESTIGATES LEARNED RESTITUTION COLLECTIONS AT CRIMINAL COURT ARE DOWN ALMOST 50% IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. SOME SITE IF A ...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court vacated a Clarion County trial court's decision ordering an inmate to pay nearly $90,000 in restitution to the jail, after determining the jail didn't qualify as a ...

Today the Ninth Circuit handed down an interesting opinion on restitution, confirming that criminal defendants can agree to pay expansive restitution beyond what is required by the crimes of ...

JACKSON, Miss.—During her shifts at a Church’s Chicken, Annita Husband looked like the other employees. She wore the same blue and red polo shirt, greeted the same customers and slung the same fried ...