# Hill v. United States

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · August 12, 1987 · 529 A.2d 788

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9702341

## Case

- **Full name:** Donnie R. HILL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** August 12, 1987
- **Citations:** 529 A.2d 788; 1987 D.C. App. LEXIS 409
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Mack
- **Judges:** Nebeker, MacK, Belson
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

MACK, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I join fully in the majority opinion. I write separately only to state that the answer to the question the court reserves in footnote one seems clear to me. Neither a statute nor “inherent judicial powers” can be invoked to impose a penal sanction, such as restitution, on a defendant who is not convicted of the offense underlying the proposed imposition of the sanction.

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