State v. Keigan C.

—All three juvenile appellants were passengers in stolen vehicles. All were convicted of joyriding. Their appeals from orders of restitution raise the same issue: whether damages occurring either before they became passengers or after they got out of the car can properly be seen as causally connected to the crime.1 Because the joyriding statute makes takers and riders equally culpable for the crime, we conclude a trial court has discretion to make them jointly and severally liable for restitution.

The first case is the appeal of Keigan C. By the time the driver of a stolen car picked up…