In Ellingburg v United States, to be argued on Oct. 14, the justices will consider whether the ex post facto clause of the Constitution applies to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, which entitles ...

Federal restitution was meant to fairly punish those accused of crimes while also benefitting victims. A study shows neither one of these goals are being met. When Congress expanded restitution laws ...

Restitution plays a big part of our criminal justice system. However, recent studies have shown the practice to be both unfair and not effective. Now the Supreme Court has weighed in. Restitution is ...

Tuesday’s argument in Ellingburg v. United States turned on whether the ex post facto clause of the Constitution applies to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act. That clause bars imposing criminal ...

The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA), enacted in 1996, requires defendants convicted of certain federal crimes to pay monetary restitution to the victims. Defendants convicted of crimes that ...

Washington — Nearly 3 1/2 years after the U.S. Capitol siege, the government has recovered only a fraction of the court-ordered restitution payments for repairs, police injuries and cleanup of the ...

The Court granted cert to review whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act is "penal" in character. But the defendant was ordered to pay restitution under a different ...

President Trump’s pardons and clemencies allowed recipients to get out of paying more than $1.3 billion in restitution and fines, according to a review of court records by Democrats on the House ...

Colorado’s second-highest court concluded on Thursday that a defendant has no obligation to pay nearly $37,000 in crime victim restitution due to a faulty order that even the trial judge acknowledged ...

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wants a federal judge to nix his remaining federal restitution, saying in a recent court filing he's suffered enough and there is a misconception as to how much money ...