Restitution “TBD by the Probation Officer”
Published for NC Criminal Law on May 28, 2013.
May a judge delegate to a probation officer the task of setting the amount of restitution owed to a victim? For several reasons, my standard answer to that recurring question is no. The main reason for my answer is the restitution statutes themselves. The law says that restitution should be ordered “when sentencing a defendant,” ... Read more
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