Sentence examples for restitution order from inspiring English sources

Americans love a good courthouse drama: justice and restitution; order after chaos; good vs evil.

A court restitution order usually requires offenders to pay the fair market value of the loss to the victims.

Mr. Minkow, now a minister, said that he legally owes millions to one victim, Union Bank, because a federal judge had dismissed the rest of his restitution order.

Under the new plan, another option would be for anyone convicted of such an assault to pay cash to good causes through a restitution order.

It said its calculations, in reviewing the case, would yield an actual loss to the Treasury "well in excess of the district court's $1 million restitution order".

Some federal district courts have granted nothing, stating that the link between Amy's harm and the act of possession is too tenuous to support a restitution order.

Punishing criminal behavior, the reasoning goes, is what prison and restitution orders are for.

But the state's attorneys argued against parole, saying Freshwaters had changed his name to hide, never paid the restitution ordered for his victim's family and continued to avoid accountability.

A prison sentence for years, fines or restitution orders can all co-exist.

"We anticipate the restitution ordered to this woman will take us down to our very last penny," he quipped.

The complaint alleged that some of the funds were used to pay restitution ordered in his dogfighting case.