People in Interest of P.J.N., 664 P.2d 245 (Colo. 1983)

Cases | People in Interest of P.J.N., 664 P.2d 245 (Colo. 1983) | 2018

Delinquent child was adjudicated delinquent on the basis of a petition charging him with third degree assault. Delinquent child was ordered to pay $1261.10 in restitution as a condition of probation, $777.70 of which represented reimbursement to the victim’s insurer. On a motion for reconsideration of the restitution order, another judge of the Jefferson County District Court struck that portion of the order requiring reimbursement to the victim’s insurer. The supreme court reversed the order striking restitution to the insurer, with directions to ascertain whether payment of the full amount of the original order would cause serious hardship or injustice to delinquent child and if not to reinstate the original order. The broad statutory requirement that a delinquent child must pay “for any damage done to persons or property” fully authorized the district court's order that delinquent child pay restitution to the victim's insurer. There was no dispute that the $777.70 that he was ordered to pay to the insurer represented repayment of medical benefits that it provided to the victim.

(This case cites former Colo. Rev. Stat. § 16-11-204.5.)