State of Minnesota v. Almanzo Ousley Cotton

Summary

The court affirmed the restitution order requiring Cotton to pay the Minnesota Crime Victims Reparations Board the amount it had paid to the victim's daughter. It held that the Board may seek restitution as a victim or on a victim's behalf, and that restitution is governed by the restitution statute's exclusive factors rather than the Reparations Act's collateral-source provision. The court explained that Cotton could challenge whether the victim would have been entitled to restitution directly, but he did not make that challenge.