Commonwealth v. Washington

BY JUDGE JOHN J. MCGRATH, JR.

The Court has indicated that it will impose the five-year sentence recommended by the juiy for the Defendant’s conviction of malicious wounding. The matter now comes before this Court on Commonwealth’s Request for Restitution. The Commonwealth requests that this Court order fire Defendant to pay restitution in an amount of $8,742.41, and the Defendant objects, asserting that fire Court does not have the authority to order restitution when there is no suspended sentence and the Defendant is not on probation.

The issue before this Court is whether this Court has fire…