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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">From DOJ’s Appellate Division Legal Update:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SENTENCING—RESTITUTION: State must put on evidence to demonstrate that<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">charges on hospital bill to treat injuries caused by defendant were “reasonable”; it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">cannot rely on the bill as evidence of reasonableness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">State v. McClelland</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, 276 Or App 138, __ P3d __ (2016) (Coos).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Defendant appealed the trial court’s restitution award, which followed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">defendant’s convictions for fourth-degree assault and interfering with a police officer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">He argued that the trial court erred by ordering restitution based solely on a hospital bill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">for the victim’s knee surgery, without further testimony or evidence that the charges were<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">reasonable. The state argued that although medical bills alone are insufficient to support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">restitution in <i>civil </i>cases, such evidence is sufficient in
<i>criminal </i>cases because the criminal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">restitution statutes merely require “evidence of the nature and amount of the damages.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">See </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ORS 137.106(1)(a). The trial court (Judge Michael Gillespie) agreed with the state<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">and ordered defendant to pay restitution in the amount of the hospital bill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Held</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Remanded for resentencing; otherwise affirmed (Shorr, J.).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">[1] ORS 137.106(1)(a) allows criminal restitution for “the full amount of the victim’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">economic damages.” The criminal restitution statute, ORS 137.103(2), defines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“economic damages” based on a definition of that term in a civil statute, ORS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">31.710(2)(a), which includes a “reasonableness” requirement for bills for medical and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">hospital services. Thus, civil cases holding that medical bills alone do not establish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">reasonableness apply to criminal restitution awards for hospital or medical services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">[2] A hospital bill alone is insufficient proof for a criminal restitution award of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“reasonable” hospital or medical services; additional testimony or evidence is required to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">establish the reasonableness of such services. [3] Here, the trial court erred by relying on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">a medical bill and “common sense” to conclude that the relevant charges were<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">reasonable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A157254.pdf">http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A157254.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D">Erin S. Greenawald</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D">Sr. Assistant Attorney General | DA/LE Assistance| Criminal Justice Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#1F497D">Oregon Department of Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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