FEDERICO GARCIA, APPELLANT,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Lewis v. State, 874 So. 2d 18 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004)
  …aid to the sheriffs office. See Rodriguez v. State, 691 So. 2d 568, 569 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997) (citations omitted). Although in some cases a government agency may be a conduit for directing restitution money to the ultimate victim, see Seidman v. State, 847 So. 2d 1144, 1146 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003), there is no evidence in this case that the order was intended for a victim. Therefore, the court erred in ordering restitution to the sheriffs office. Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded to vacate the order of…
• Albertie v. State, 979 So. 2d 1086 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008)
  …t. (2006).1-2 This, in turn, is the case because the RIAA neither itself suffered a “loss” from the forgery of its members’ compact disks, nor falls within the “conduit” exception to the rule requiring such a loss, as recognized in Seidman v. State, 847 So. 2d 1144, 1146 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003). The exception applies when a collection agency merely passes along the sums received to the “real” victims. In this case, however, the RIAA does not remit any restitution received to the entity which made the recording, bu…

Authorities Cited

• Taylor v. State, 818 So. 2d 544 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002)
• Gende v. Fla. Dep't of Child. & Families, 836 So. 2d 1112 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003)