In re Don Mc.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “MASTER: What’s your position with that ma’am? [MOTHER]: I cannot afford it. MASTER: Ma’am, that may be. I’m not saying you’ve got to pay it out at one time. I’m sure that GEICO would be— [MOTHER]: I’m on a fixed income. MASTER: Well, ma’am, that may be, but they’re entitled to their money the same as if somebody’s broke into your house and stole your property, you’d want the victim—that person to pay you for what you had lost. They’re the same thing. They’re the victim in this case. [MOTHER]: I wouldn’t charge that much money. MASTER: Well ma’am, maybe you wouldn’t, but the $4800.00 we’re talking about is less than they paid out. I mean, they’re going to have to, in essence, they can’t get any other monies from Juvenile Court (inaudible) a restitu tion. Whether they can get that money some other way is really not my problem. That’s their problem.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Don Mc.

2. “MASTER: What about that Mrs. Me. [Mother]? [DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Well, your honor, I have— MASTER: That’s $4800.00 to your client and his mother. [DEFENSE COUNSEL]: I have not been advised by the State that GEICO was seeking that restitution in ... MASTER: The State never notifies them. [DEFENSE COUNSEL]: If they wish to be a party, then we would request a restitution hearing to have them be present.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Don Mc.

3. “[I]t just seems to me to be patently unfair that people like [Petitioner] go out and steal these cars and total them, and my insurance rates along with all these other drivers in here are going up because the carrier is paying out all this money.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Don Mc.