California Court of Appeal

Trial court's order to pay victim restitution pursuant to Penal Code section 1202.4 including lost wages arising from a conviction for burglary is affirmed as, even though the victim did not testify as a witness, the wages that he lost while attending criminal court proceedings constituted economic loss attributable to defendant's misconduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/23/2009
• Published 09/23/2009

Judges

• SCOTLAND, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard L. Fitzer, Los Angeles, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stephen G. Herndon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Paul E. O'Connor, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.