“Taken together, these three considerations—the banks having lost something in which they had a property interest at the moment of the crime, the banks bearing the economic loss by operation of statute, and the banks having been the targets of Allen’s crimes—establish that the banks are victims under any common-sense understanding of that term.”

Justice

Update: On November 21, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

“Your friends on the other side say the checks were drawn from particular accounts, and those account holders would be the actual victims and not the bank. How do you respond to that?”

Update: On November 21, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the argument here.

On May 8, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. Zachary C. Allen, 2018-0705. At issue