Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

dispute restitution amount

A member of my family was employed at Target department store, she started taking money during refund transactions, she admitted it to the store security, that is not disputed, the day she was confronted, and terminated/arrested security for the store made her sign an admission of theft amounting to $3,102 this amount is not documented. She was charged and put on probation, and ordered to pay restitution. My question is can they arbitrarily assign an amount of loss without proof, or is the fact she signed, under diress, an admission to that amount legally binding? She was employed there for 3 months and was part time, which meant she would have taken 1,000 a mo, when was impossible.

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Asked on 11/18/06, 11:32 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Edward Hoffman Law Offices of Edward A. Hoffman

Re: dispute restitution amount

I'm not sure why you think there's no proof, given that your relative signed a document acknowledging that she stole the specific dollar amount she has been ordered to repay. That's pretty convincing proof by most standards. She can try to prove in court that the amount was actually less than she admitted, but that would be very hard to do.

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Answered on 11/19/06, 8:05 pm


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