Legal Opinion

People v. Rivera

Colorado Court of Appeals

Decided March 18, 2010No. 07CA0279PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Judge TAUBMAN.

Defendant, Jon Paul Rivera, appeals the trial court's order granting the People's request for restitution of the victim's counseling expenses and denying an in-camera review and disclosure of documents supporting that request. We affirm.

I. Background

In April 2006, Rivera pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a child, a class four felony, stemming from an incident involving thirteen-year-old victim K.T. The court subsequently sentenced Rivera to two years to life in the Department of Corrections.

After the People requested restitution of $2,102.25, Rivera objected only to…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Pennsylvania v. RitchieSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. State v. GagneSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1992
  3. People v. WittreinSupreme Court of Colorado · 2009
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  5. City of Colorado Springs v. WhiteSupreme Court of Colorado · 1998

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