California Court of Appeal

In this case, defendant pleaded no contest to home invasion robbery, was sentenced to state prison for six years, and was ordered to pay restitution to the victim in the amount of $539.57 plus interest. Thereafter, the People moved to modify the restitution award and the court ordered defendant to pay restitution to the victim in the amount of $20,357.21, and $20,388.63, $3,749, and $4,668.47 to various real parties in interest. The judgment is affirmed, where: 1) the trial court did not err in modifying the restitution order, as its modification superseded the prior order; 2) the People's decision not to seek restitution relative to the codefendant's car crash in the initial restitution hearing did not waive the victims' right to seek restitution later; and 3) trial counsel was not ineffective in failing to object because such an objection would have been meritless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2015
• Published 03/06/2015

Judges

• Nicholson

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel