Commonwealth v. Harshman

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• noting that whether a district court may award prejudgment interest on the amount of restitution implicates the legality of a sentence because it’s an issue of whether the prejudgment interest is authorized by statute
• noting prejudgment interest is based on the loss of use of the stolen money
• section 18-1.3-603(4)(a) allows for collection of a restitution award “without the time and expense necessary to file an additional civil action”
• Prejudgment interest should be awarded from the time the money is stolen “to the time a restitution award is entered.”
• “The word ‘also’ implies . . . in addition to . . . .”
• defendants must pay post-Judgment interest until the restitution order is paid in full

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).