{"id":37211,"date":"2013-10-03T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=37211"},"modified":"2013-10-03T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:53:19","slug":"leonard-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/leonard-20\/","title":{"rendered":"MI House passes measure to protect victims\u2019 right to restitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Bill 4636<!--more--><br \/>\nThe House of Representatives recently approved legislation introduced by State Rep. Tom Leonard aimed at ensuring that criminals continue to pay restitution following a victim\u2019s death.<br \/>\nHouse Bill 4636 requires a defendant to pay the remaining restitution to a victim&#8217;s estate if the victim dies, making it uniform for all victims and defendants.<br \/>\n\u201cA victim\u2019s death should never let a defendant off the hook when a restitution order is in place,\u201d said Leonard, R-DeWitt Township. \u201cBy ensuring that any remaining amount of restitution is paid to the victim\u2019s estate, this piece of legislation will help victims and their families get the justice they deserve.\u201d<br \/>\nThe measure is now before the Senate for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Bill 4636<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}