Supreme Court Says Victim Restitution Law Is Criminal Penalty

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that a victim restitution law represents a criminal punishment as it revived a challenge by a ...

Restitution’s Broken Promise: The Supreme Court Calls It Punishment

The Supreme Court has weighed in on Criminal Restitution and called it a "punishment" ... could this change how judges hand ...
Davis Vanguard

Supreme Court Rules Mandatory Victims Restitution Act Is Criminal Punishment

The Supreme Court ruled that restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act is criminal punishment, and that the ...
JD Supra

Calling it What it Is: Restitution as a “Plainly Criminal” Punishment Under Unanimous SCOTUS opinion in Ellingburg v. United States

The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA), enacted in 1996, requires defendants convicted of certain federal crimes to pay ...
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Top lawmaker to seek changes to victims restitution laws

SEATTLE -- A high ranking state lawmaker will introduce legislation soon to help victims of crime get their court-ordered restitution, after a KOMO News investigation found a full third of victims ...
The Gazette

Divided appeals court upholds judge's decade-old violation of restitution law

Colorado's second-highest court turned aside a defendant's challenge earlier this month to a judge's decade-old order that he pay $28,518 in crime victim restitution, even though the judge failed to ...
Law

Forfeiture and Restitution: Ships Passing in the Night?

The modern incarnation of criminal forfeiture traces its roots back to 1970, when Congress passed the RICO Act and the Controlled Substances Act, which allowed law enforcement to seize property ...