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IFRP Payment Schedule May Not be Delegated to BOP by Sentencing Judge
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2013
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2013, page 36
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that “where the sentencing court has failed to consider whether the defendant has the financial resources to pay restitution immediately, ordering immediate payment impermissibly delegates to the BOP [Bureau of Prisons] the court’s obligation to set a payment schedule.” …
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion,
Money/Property,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Restitution,
Mandatory Victims Restitution Act.
Location:
California.
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