January 03, 2007
Coach told not to pay medical bills of victim
The Plain Dealer, January 3, 2007
A youth-baseball coach convicted of assaulting a concession worker who later died does not have to pay nearly $20,000 in medical bills because they were related to keeping Robert Abrams alive, not to the assault. A law professor believes restitution is warranted. "I think there is a clear causal connection," said Case Western Reserve University professor Lewis Katz. "It seems to me that all the expenses flowed from the crime he was convicted of." Read article.
Posted by: Heidi Cool, January 3, 2007 11:05 AM | News Topics: Faculty, School of Law, The Plain Dealer
http://blog.case.edu/caseinthenews/2007/01/03/coach_told_not_to_pay_medical_bills_of_victim
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