United States v. Peter Sleight

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “restitution ... is imposed as a part of sentencing”
• holding that \restitution . . . is imposed as a part of sentencing\
• finding that under Federal Probation Act, restitution “remains inherently a criminal penalty”
• holding, in the context of an award of restitution, that “[c]onsideration of the propriety of the amount awarded . . . necessarily encompasses the possible ruling that zero dollars should have been awarded”
• finding that under the Federal Probation Act, restitution \remains inherently a criminal penalty\
• prohibiting prejudgment interest because purpose of restitution under Probation Act is to make victim whole; order is imposed as part of sentencing process and remains inherently a criminal penalty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).