State v. Wilkinson

OPINION

FIDEL, Judge.

¶ 1 It is a class one misdemeanor in Arizona to act as a residential contractor without a license. See A.R.S. § 32-1151 (1996). This special action presents the question whether an unlicensed contractor convicted of that crime may be required, by order of restitution, to reimburse a contracting homeowner for the economic damages that the homeowner suffered from the contractor’s incomplete ánd faulty work.

I. History

¶ 2 In February 1996, Defendant John R. Porter represented himself as a licensed con*378tractor to homeowner T.S.; the following month he did so to homeowner N.L.…