My question involves criminal law for the state of: Texas
My son assaulted a guy that beat up a girl. On the guys property. He was wrong this I know. But the judge gave him 10 years probation and 367,000.00 dollars in restitution. We were floored at this amout. This was the first time he had been in trouble. He Served In afghanistan twice and iraq. Was a srgt. in the army. And suffers from ptsd. He had a terrible lawyer that has now been disbarred. He was 26 when this happened. How do you pay a restitution that can never be paid when your just a regular joe. He will never be able to pay this in his life time. Is there any thing we can do to lower this. Also I put up a two thousand dollar cash bond...he has not been given credit for it and not even the phone number on the bond or the court clerk seems to know how to get credit for this or the money back. It's been three years in aug. all I get is I don't know what you should do. We don't live in the state this happened in so it is hard to get anything done. This amount is unjust...the five time felon deserves some restitution but not that much. please help if anyone can...this has destroyed more that one life.

