Samuel Tyrone Russell v. Alabama State Bar

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• explaining that ORS 137.106(1)(a) permits an award of restitution only if “a trial court can determine, from the record and the defendant’s conviction, that the defendant committed the act that resulted in the victim’s damages”
• “[T]he trial court has authority to make its own factual findings as to both economic damages and causation.”
• “ORS 137.106 requires an award of restitution when three prerequisites are met: (1) criminal activities; (2) economic damages; and (3) a causal relationship between the two.”
• in restitution cases, “but for” causation is a factual question for the trial court
• “[T]he restitution statute does not grant [a trial court] authority to make its own indepen- dent factual findings about * * * the criminal act that the defendant committed.”
• in restitution cases, “but for” causation is a factual question for the trial court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).