State v. Rouse, 647 N.W.2d 286 (Wis. Ct. App. 2002)

Cases | State v. Rouse, 647 N.W.2d 286 (Wis. Ct. App. 2002) | 2018

The defendant pled no contest to and was convicted of one count of forgery. Among other things, the defendant was ordered to compensate the Wisconsin Community Bank for the time the bank’s employees spent researching the forgery allegations. The defendant appealed, arguing that the bank did not demonstrate that it paid out any additional expenses as a result of his conduct because all of the bank employees who assisted the police in researching the forgeries were salaried, and the bank did not pay them extra for the time they spent investigating the forgeries. The Court of Appeals of Wisconsin affirmed the trial court’s order, concluding that the restitution statute authorizes a trial court to order restitution based on a victim employer’s lost employee time.