State v. Kappelman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant’s guilty plea “was not an admission of any facts that went beyond the essential elements of the charge”
• suggesting that admissions of criminal conduct must “bind [the] defendant and preclude him from contesting” the admission
• deeming imposition of compensatory fine to be plain error where “the factual predicate for the restitution award is, at present, lacking”
• restitution award can be based on guilty plea, a defendant’s admissions, or factual findings supported by the record
• “[I]f a defendant convicted of hit and run ‘caused’ the accident, then the defendant may be ordered to pay restitution for damages resulting from the accident.”
• plea agreement does not implicitly admit facts beyond the essential elements of the charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).