State v. Johnson

ANDERSON, PJ.

¶ 1. Mark R. Johnson seeks to reduce his restitution obligation to the insurer of the local business he was convicted of burglarizing. The challenged amount represents the victim's lost profits on a prospective sale of products and services. While Johnson concedes that lost profits on a prospective sale may be imposed as restitution under Wis. Stat. § 973.20(5)(a) (2003-04), 1 he complains that the evidence failed to sufficiently demonstrate that a causal nexus existed between his criminal activity and the victim's claimed lost profits and that the victim's lost profits amounted…