OPINION & ORDER
Benjamin Beaton, District Judge.
May a sentencing judge decline to impose victim restitution that the victim doesn't want? 18 U.S.C. § 2259(a) commands that district judges "shall order restitution for any offense under th[e] chapter" covering the child-pornography crimes that Brian Byrd...
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