United States v. Dominic Demarcus Steele
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Chief Judge Gregory wrote the opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson and Judge Agee joined.
1Opinion of the Court
GREGORY, Chief Judge:
Dominic Steele was convicted of postal theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1709 . Relying on the victim's unsupported estimate of its replacement costs, the district court ordered Steele to pay $52,990 in restitution. Because fair market value is the appropriate measure of value for restitution and the Government failed to sufficiently demonstrate the victim's loss, we vacate the restitution order and remand.
I
In January 2015, the U.S. Postal Service hired Steele as a mail handler assistant at its Processing and Distribution Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a part of…
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