The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has seized on an opportunity to clarify the scope of its own 2016 ruling in Commonwealth v. Veon, which held that, under 18 Pa.C.S.A. Section 1106, ”there can be no restitution when there is no human victim.”

The justices granted allocatur Feb. 21 in Commonwealth v. Steffey to answer a single question: “Whether, in a case of first impression after and in light of this court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Veon … the Superior Court erred in holding that a sentence to pay restitution to a nonprofit corporation may be ordered?”

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