Opinion ID: 3025316
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Text: On September 23, 1993, the grand jury of Harris County Texas returned a true bill against the Debtor, indicting her for the felony offense of theft over $20,000. The indictment alleged that the Debtor stole $89,549.84 from her employer between October 1988 and April 1991. On July 6, 1995, the Debtor entered a plea of guilty to the allegation of felony theft in the indictment. On September 14, 1995, the Texas court conducted a punishment hearing at which the court placed the Debtor on deferred adjudication probation for ten years and imposed as a condition to probation restitution in the amount of $89,549.84, payable in an initial installment of $5,000.00, with monthly payments of $730.00 thereafter. The Debtor failed to make the initial $5,000.00 payment and has only made one full and four partial monthly payments to Harris County. On July 23, 1991, the Debtor filed a joint Chapter 13 petition with her husband in the Eastern District of Arkansas. She received a discharge on December 4, 1996, and the case was closed on December 10, 1996. The Debtor never listed or scheduled any obligation to Harris County in her Chapter 13 bankruptcy case. On March 9, 1998, the Debtor was arrested for failing to make the restitution payments to Harris County. The Debtor reopened her 1991 Chapter 13 case and filed her complaint to determine the dischargeability of the restitution obligation. The bankruptcy court determined that the Debtor’s obligation 2 to Harris County is restitution and entered summary judgment on Harris County’s motion. The Debtor appealed the entry of summary judgment.