Greenwood v. State, 915 P.2d 258 (Nev. 1996)

Cases | Greenwood v. State, 915 P.2d 258 (Nev. 1996) | 2018

After injuring the victim in a bar fight, the defendant was convicted of misdemeanor battery, a lesser offense included in the more serious charge of battery causing serious bodily harm. He was ordered to pay the victim $94,000 in restitution to cover the costs of all of the victim’s medical bills. On appeal, the defendant argued that since the jury acquitted him of the more serious battery charge, he should not be responsible for all of the victim’s medical bills. The supreme court found that the trial court’s order of restitution for the full amount of the victim’s medical bills was improper because it punished the defendant for charges of which he had not been found guilty nor admitted to. The order was set aside.