Dupin v. State

CONOVER, Judge.

Charles S. Dupin (Dupin) appeals the Tippecanoe Superior Court's order requiring him to pay restitution for lost wages and other expenses to those persons injured in a collision resulting from his driving while intoxicated as a condition of probation after he pled guilty to criminal charges of four counts of operating a motor vehicle with .10% blood alcohol or more resulting in bodily injury and one count of the same resulting in death.

The sole issue in this cause, restated, is whether the trial court abused its discretion by ordering Dupin to pay the victims of his crime…