Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States
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Whether the language in a defendant's plea agreement requiring the defendant to pay 'whatever restitution is ordered' is sufficiently specific to constitute an agreement to pay restitution not otherwise authorized by statute
QUESTION PRESENTED This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity required for the language in a defendant’s plea agreement to be construed as an agreement to pay restitution. Here, the Fifth Circuit found an admonishment about restitution coupled with an agreement to pay whatever was ordered was an agreement by Jalloul to pay restitution not otherwise authorized by statute. Is this sufficiently specific to support an agreement by Jalloul to pay restitution? i