restitution
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Colorado panel advances bill to stop juveniles from paying restitution to insurance companies
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When Shawn Pollock was 15 years old, he was arrested and sent to the Lookout Mountain Youth Detention Center. He said he spent four years in custody trying to become a better person, with aspirations of attending college after his release. Those hopes were dashed when, after he was let out at 19, Pollock learned…
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Denver City Council pauses collections agency contract
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Denver City Council on Monday voted down a resolution from the city’s courts to send debts under $300 to a collections agency the city has historically worked with. The resolution, which failed in a split 5-5 vote, proposed extending and modifying the city’s contract with Integral Recoveries, an organization that manages delinquent fines and fees…
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Appeals court finds state’s revenue department a ‘victim’ entitled to restitution
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The Colorado Department of Revenue qualifies as a “victim” that is entitled to restitution in the form of unpaid taxes from a ring of illegal marijuana growers, the state’s second-highest court has ruled. In a pair of decisions, the Court of Appeals determined that an Arapahoe County judge was wrong when she concluded society, not…
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Insurance companies are ‘victims’ under state restitution law, appeals court says
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The Court of Appeals agreed that insurance companies qualify as “victims” that are entitled to restitution under state law. A three-judge panel for the state’s second-highest court interpreted a change in the law from 2000 and concluded the legislature had not intended to erase insurers from receiving compensation for losses due to crime. The panel…
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10th Circuit clarifies that crime victim reimbursement only covers victims’ costs
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Because federal law allows for crime victims to receive restitution for the expense of participating in legal proceedings, the representatives of deceased victims cannot be reimbursed for their own expenses, the federal appeals court based in Denver has decided. The United States government attempted to argue that Anthony Rivas, the son of Charlene Bailey, was…
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Restitution to victims ends with death on appeal, state Supreme Court rules
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A defendant who dies of natural causes while their appeal is pending no longer has an obligation to pay restitution to victims, the Colorado Supreme Court decided on Monday. Under a longstanding legal doctrine, known as abatement ab initio, a person who dies while appealing his conviction not only has the appeal dismissed, but the criminal case is…