Hughey v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the VWPA limits restitution to “the loss caused by the specific conduct that is the basis of the offense of conviction.”
• holding that “the loss caused by the conduct underlying the offense of conviction establishes the outer limits of a restitution order”
• recognizing that “[t]he essence of a plea agreement is that both the prosecution and the defense make concessions to avoid potential losses”
• holding that restitution is authorized only for losses caused by conduct underlying the offense of conviction and not for other acts
• holding that the district court used the wrong legal standard when calculating restitution and remanding for further proceedings, without discussing sufficiency of the evidence under the wrong standard
• holding that the Victim and Witness Protection Act “authorize[s] an award of restitution only for the loss caused by the specific conduct that is the basis of the offense of conviction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).