Defendant was convicted of fraudulently registering vehicles of Missouri residents in Illinois to avoid Missouri state taxes. At sentencing, the district court calculated an actual loss amount and ordered defendant to make restitution in that amount. On appeal, defendant challenged ...

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Where a defendant challenged his conviction for receiving stolen property, evidence that the defendant purchased items on the victim’s charge account that were not clearly authorized by the parties’ contract, even after the victim stated this, and after the defendant ...

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After conducting a series of malicious computer attacks, defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On appeal, defendant challenged his classification as ...

Tagged with: Armed Career Criminal Intentional Damage to Protected Computer restitution

Where a defendant challenged his sentence and restitution order in a child-pornography case, the restitution order survived the appeal waiver because the order was not authorized by the statute, so the restitution order is vacated, but the prison sentence was ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit securities. The district court sentenced defendant to 120 months of incarceration and ordered him to pay $55,000 in restitution. On appeal, defendant argued that the intended-loss calculation was too high and that the restitution ...

Tagged with: Intended-Loss Calculation Passing Counterfeit Securities restitution

Where a defendant challenged his conviction for first-degree tampering and an order of restitution, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of other thefts and drug use because the evidence was relevant to establish the defendant’s ...

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  Where a defendant, who pleaded guilty to illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, challenged an order of restitution, the judgment is affirmed because the order to pay restitution for certain claimed property losses totaling $7,000 was supported by ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law evidence Property Losses restitution

  Where a defendant argued that he was denied due process, and the plea court lacked the authority to sentence him to an executed term and to pay restitution, the defendant’s claim was waived by his knowing, voluntary and intelligent ...

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  Where defendant sought to strike his agreed restitution obligation but keep the rest of his plea deal intact, the defendant’s guilty plea waived the claim of error, and the defendant’s claim that restitution contradicted the oral sentence was refuted ...

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Defendant was convicted of financial exploitation of a disabled person and Medicaid fraud after she deposited a client’s funds into her operating account rather than a trust account and purchased personal items. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court ...

Tagged with: Concurrent Sentences Criminal Law Financial Exploitation of Disabled Person restitution

Defendants participated in a wire-fraud scheme to obtain money from elderly victims, claiming relatives in the Dominican Republic needed wired funds. At sentencing, the district court found that defendants were jointly and severally liable for the total amount obtained by ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Joint and Several Liability restitution wire fraud