PEOPLE v. BROUSSARD

Docket No. S024399.

5 Cal.4th 1067 (1993)

856 P.2d 1134

22 Cal. Rptr.2d 278

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MARC EDWARD BROUSSARD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

September 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jim Fahey, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama and Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorneys General, Mark S. Howell, Aileen Bunney and Sharon Rosen Leib, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KENNARD, J.

In 1982, California voters by initiative added a provision to the state Constitution establishing a new constitutional right: the right of every crime victim to obtain restitution from the person committing the crime for all losses suffered as a result of the criminal act. (Cal. Const., art. I, § 28, subd. (b).) The constitutional provision directed the Legislature...

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