# Commonwealth v. Figueroa

> Superior Court of Pennsylvania · March 18, 1997 · 456 Pa. Super. 620

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9749014

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Dolores FIGUEROA, Appellant; COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Burton David PORTER, Appellant; COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Robert Irvin FERREE, Appellant
- **Court:** Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** March 18, 1997
- **Citations:** 456 Pa. Super. 620; 691 A.2d 487; 1997 Pa. Super. LEXIS 583
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Saylor
- **Judges:** Tamilia, Saylor, Olszewski
- **Cited by:** 20 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

SAYLOR, Judge,
concurring.
I join in the decision to vacate the order of restitution because I conclude, as does Judge Tamilia, that the sums *628 expended by the Department of Corrections for the victim’s medical care did not constitute “reimbursement [provided by a government agency] to the victim as a result of the defendant’s criminal conduct” within the meaning of the restitution statute as recently amended (effective July 3, 1995). Accordingly, such sums are not recoverable as restitution in a criminal proceeding.
Although not applicable to this case, the recently enacted Prison Medical Services Act (effective May 16, 1996), cited in the dissent, appears to provide that an inmate may be required' to pay a fee to the Department of Corrections for medical services provided because of injuries which he inflicts on a fellow inmate.

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