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Parties Involved:
Kevin Tommie Hall
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

FILED 

Unit.ed States Court of Appeals 

T,•nth C1r<'11it 

JAN 2 71993 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff/Appellee, 

vs. 

KEVIN TOMMIE HALL, 

Defendant/Appellant . 

No . 92 - 3330 

(D.C. No. 92-20023-01) 

(D. Kan.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before TACHA, BALDOCK, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.** 

Defendant-appellant K~vin Tommie Hall appeals his sentence, 

specifically, calculation of his restitution award. A nine-count 

indictment charged Mr. Hall with three bank robberies occurring on 

August 3, August 17, and August 24, 1990, and firearms charges 

related to these offenses. After plea negotiations, Mr. Hall pled 

guilty to the August 17 bank robbery and a firearms charge related 

to that robbery. See 18 u.s.c. §§ 2113(a) & (d), 924(c) (1). 

Pursuant to the plea agreement, the court ordered Mr. Hall to 

transfer a Harley Davidson motorcycle, purchased by Mr. Hall for 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

** After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. ~ Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cases are therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

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$8,000 in cash on August 5, 1990, to Bank IV, the victim of the 

August 3 robbery. The court additionally ordered Mr. Hal l to pay 

Interstate Federal Savings and Loan, the victim of the August 17 

robbery, $3,066 .10 in restitution. On appeal, Mr. Hall claims 

that the $8,000 value of the motorcycle should be credited against 

t he $3,066. 10 in restitution. Our j urisdiction arises under 28 

U.S.C. § 1291 and we affirm. 

Appellate review of the legality of a restitution award is de 

nova, while the amount of restitution is reviewed for an abuse of 

discretion. United States v. Diamond, 969 F .2d 961, 965 (10th 

Cir . 1992 ). The plain language of Mr. Hall's plea agreement 

provided that "Mr. Hall will additionally surrender and transfer 

to the government, or to such party as the sentencing court may 

order, the Harley Davidson motorcycle purchased by him on August 

5, 1990, and any other fruits or proceeds of the offenses charged 

in the indictment which are still in his possession or under his 

control." Apl t. Br., ex. A. 

The Victim and Witness Protection Act (VWPA) provides that 

"[t] he court may also order restitution in any criminal case to 

the extent agreed to by the parties in a plea agreement." 18 

U.S.C. § 3663(a) (3). Although this provision became effective in 

November 1990, after the date of the offenses charged in Mr. 

Hall's indictment, Mr. Hall entered into the plea agreement on 

June 16, 1992, long after§ 3663 (a ) (3) became effective. We find 

no violation of ex post facto principles in allowing the court t o 

validate prospectively the terms of the plea agreement. See 

United States v. Arnold, 947 F.2d 1236, 1238 n.2 (5th Cir. 1991). 

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A violation of ex post facto requires a change in the law 

increasing the penalty attributable to a particular crime. Weaver 

v. Graham, 450 U.S. 24, 29-31 (1981). The procedural 

clarification of the 1990 amendment to the VWPA did not 

retroactively enhance the penalty for past conduct, and does not 

offend ex post facto as applied to Mr. Hall's plea agreement. See 

United States v. Rice, 954 F.2d 40, 43-44 (2d Cir. 1992); United 

States v. Arnold, 947 F.2d at 1238 n.2 (5th Cir. 1991). 

AFFIRMED. 

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Entered for the Court 

Paul J. Kelly, Jr. 

Circuit Judge 

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