Opinion ID: 2575993
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Restitution for Missing Property

Text: ¶ 28 I concur in the majority's decision regarding the missing CDs. While defendants argue that there was no showing of but for causation regarding the missing CDs, there is no indication of when the CDs went missing. The Certification for Determination of Probable Cause containing the facts to which defendants stipulated does not mention the CDs. McNulty denied that there were any CDs in the vehicle when he stole it. [5] The CDs could have gone missing during the roughly three hours when McNulty was in sole possession of the vehicle, but they could also have gone missing during the time the defendants were in the car. Defendants were not immediately apprehended and would presumably have had sufficient time to dispose of CDs, although the police report makes no mention of the defendants holding CDs or a container capable of holding CDs when they jumped from the moving car. ¶ 29 No intervening cause accounts for their loss. Since there is no way to determine when the CDs disappeared and since they could have disappeared when defendants were in the car, the known underlying facts of the charged offense [6] appear to support the imposition of restitution for the missing CDs.