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Parties Involved:
Billy Gene Harris
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

v. 

BILLY GENE HARRIS, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

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APPEALS F I L J - " J-lwea\r 

United s,r:th ~~t 

NOV 4 1992 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 92-5077 

(D.C. No. 89-CR-72-B) 

(N.D. Oklahoma) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MOORE, TACHA, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and the appellate record, this 

three-judge panel has determined unanimously that oral argument 

would not be of material assistance in the determination of this 

appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The 

cause is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

Mr. Harris appeals only that portion of his sentence relating 

to the amount of restitution ordered. We affirm. 

* 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. 

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Mr. Harris was convicted of first degree murder of two 

individuals. A codefendant was convicted of the same offenses in 

a separate trial. Mr. Harris was sentenced to life imprisonment 

without parole. 

Mr. Harris appealed his conviction and 

affirmed, but vacated the restitution order 

sentence. We 

and remanded for 

reconsideration as there was no evidence in.the record concerning 

Mr. Harris' assets or income. No. 90-5028, Order and Judgment 

filed 2-21-92. 

Upon remand the government presented evidence of Mr. Harris' 

financial ability to pay restitution which included the fact that 

Mr. Harris was employed within the prison as a furniture assembler 

and earned from $100 to $200 per month. The government further 

introduced evidence that Mr. Harris was eligible to participate in 

the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program wherein one-half of . 

the inmate's salary is garnished for satisfaction of court-ordered 

financial obligations. 

The evidence establishes that the victims' funeral expenses 

amounted to $11,190.21 and at least $500 was taken from the 

victims during their murder. The court found that Mr. Harris 

should make restitution in the amount of $11,690.21 and so 

ordered. 

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Mr. Harris filed this appeal contending the codefendant had 

been ordered to make restitution for $5,845.11, and as Mr. Harris 

had been ordered to pay $11,690.21 the total restitution order 

exceeded the victims' loss. Mr. Harris asks this court to remand 

with instructions to order Mr. Harris to pay one-half the amount 

of loss sustained by the victims in this case. 

After Mr. Harris filed his brief with this court, the trial 

court, acting pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 36 (clerical mistakes in 

judgments arising from oversight may be corrected by the court at 

any time}, amended the judgment and commitment order to impose 

joint and several liability upon Mr. Harris with the codefendant 

for the amount of $11,690.21. 

Mr. Harris has filed no reply brief responding to this 

amendment, which amendment was also set forth in the government's 

brief. 

It therefore appears the trial court gave to Mr. Harris the 

relief he requested, i.e., the amount of total restitution ordered 

cannot exceed the amount of the victims' loss. 

The judgment is therefore AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court: 

WADE BRORBY 

United States Circuit Judge 

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