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AZ Supreme Court rules restitution claim can proceed in 2015 Ash Fork murder case

Lillian Hester Sentencing

Lillian Hester in this 2018 file photo looks to a detention officer before her sentencing hearing after being found guilty of child abuse and first-degree murder in the 2015 death of her 6-year-old nephew Jason Hester.

More than six years after one defendant was convicted at trial and three pleaded guilty in the starvation death of an Ash Fork child, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled last week that the victim’s sister may demand restitution for her sibling’s “future lost wages� -- so long as those wages can be calculated without undue “speculation or conjecture.�

The court did not provide specific guidance on how the potential lifetime income of a person who died at age 6 should be determined.





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