PEOPLE v. TORRES

Docket No. A077653.

59 Cal.App.4th 1 (1997)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ALBERTO GARCIA TORRES, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Four.

November 7, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Christine Dubois, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Martin S. Kaye and Ronald S. Matthias, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

POCHE, Acting P.J.

In this case we conclude that a law enforcement entity that spends money to purchase illegal drugs does not thereby become a "direct victim of a crime" entitling it to receive direct restitution reimbursing it for the cash it spent on the drugs. Defendant Alberto Garcia Torres appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon his guilty pleas to four counts of selling methamphetamine (Health & Saf....

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