Johnson v. People

1 This case presents the narrow question of whether a motion to change a restitution payee from one victim identified in a restitution order to other victims identified therein (whom the first vietim was obliged to pay but did not pay) constitutes a new restitution request that must comply with the statutory requirements for making restitution requests.

2 Petitioner Donald Johnson was convicted of careless driving-no injury, and the county court ordered him to pay $28,485.20 in restitution for pecuniary losses suffered by, among others, (1) a woman whose vehicle he struck with his vehicle and…