People v. Johnson

The question in this case is whether a court, in sentencing a defendant to a term of incarceration, is required to determine the amount of restitution which a convicted offender should pay to the victim of the crime and to include that amount in the judgment of conviction and endorse it upon the mittimus. In sentencing the defendant to the Department of Corrections for a term of four years, the district court denied the prosecution’s motion, made pursuant to section 16-11-102(4), 8A C.R.S. (1986), to impose a restitution obligation on the defendant. We now vacate the judgment and remand the…