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072437P.pdf 07/25/2008 United States v. Bonnie Boal
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-2437
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Riley and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. Sentencing judge cannot order the clerk
of the district court to pay money received in satisfaction of the
government's restitution lien to anyone other than the restitution victim
identified in the judgment of conviction; the judge does not power to
enter such an order because the applicable statutes and regulations
impose a ministerial duty on the clerk to pay the restitution victim.