Court Opinion

ID: 9489366
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:13:54.678839+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:29.424599
License: Public Domain

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
The restitution order here directed the payment of $39,600.02. While it listed three banks and the amount of the loss of each, it did so as an explanation as to how the sum of $39,600.02 was calculated. Thus, when defendant paid the amounts he did to the Clerk of the Court, he was paying on the $39,600.02 ordered. That order has now been reduced to $10,546.81. Defendant is entitled to credit for the amounts he has paid on the order. His obligation is to pay until the amount of the obligation of the order is fulfilled, not until the victim is fully compensated. Had the order been drafted differently and directed separate payment to separate individuals *164or entities, instead of directing the payment of a specific sum, I am not sure defendant would be entitled to credit for the amount paid to persons who were not victims of the counts of conviction. While the District Court would have had no jurisdiction to award restitution to those who were not victims of the counts of conviction, the defendant, rather than Security Bank, might, well have had to bear the consequences of the District Court’s erroneous order. However, since the order here does not present that problem, I concur in the Court’s holding that defendant receive credit for all amounts paid to the Clerk of the Court.