State v. McCarthy

¶1 Ryan Joseph McCarthy appeals the trial court’s sentence imposing, as part of restitution, the burial and funeral costs of victims shot by his accomplice in crime. He argues that the State was required but failed to show a causal relationship between these costs and the crimes for which he was convicted. Because RCW 9.94A-.753(7) requires that the trial court order a convicted defendant to pay, as restitution, costs paid by the crime victims’ compensation fund under the name of the defendant, and the trial court need not, under such circumstances, independently find a causal relationship…