D.M. v. State

D.M., a child, pled no contest to leaving the scene of an accident with personal injury and to culpable negligence resulting in infliction of personal injury. The court withheld adjudications of delinquency, placed him on community control, and, as a condition of community control, ordered him to pay the victim restitution. It reserved jurisdiction to determine the amount of the restitution.

Two days later, a restitution hearing was held. D.M. argued at the hearing that the court should apportion restitution between himself and the victim, because she (the victim) was partly at fault in…