South Carolina Code 17-25-510. Definitions
(1) "Office" means Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 17-25-510
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Convicted: includes any conviction by entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, conviction after trial, a finding of guilty but mentally ill, or a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity. See South Carolina Code 17-25-510
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
- Offender: means the person convicted of the particular crime in question. See South Carolina Code 17-25-510
- Office: means Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division. See South Carolina Code 17-25-510
- Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
- Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
(2) "Convicted" includes any conviction by entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, conviction after trial, a finding of guilty but mentally ill, or a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity.
(3) "Eligible person" means:
(a) a victim of the particular crime in question who has suffered direct or threatened physical, psychological, or financial harm as a result of the commission of the particular crime;
(b) a victim’s spouse;
(c) a victim’s parent;
(d) a victim’s child;
(e) a spouse, parent, child, or lawful representative of a victim who is:
(i) deceased;
(ii) a minor;
(iii) incompetent; or
(iv) physically or psychologically incapacitated; or
(f) a person dependent for principal support on the deceased victim of the crime.
"Eligible person" does not include the offender criminally responsible for the crime in question or a person aiding or abetting the offender criminally responsible.
(4) "Offender" means the person convicted of the particular crime in question.
(5) "Profit from a crime" includes any of the following:
(a) property obtained through or income generated from the commission of a crime for which the offender was convicted;
(b) property obtained or income generated from the sale, conversion, or exchange of proceeds of a crime for which the offender was convicted, including gain realized by the sale, conversion, or exchange; or
(c) property which the offender obtained or income generated as a result of having committed the crime for which the offender was convicted, including assets obtained through the unique knowledge obtained during the commission of or in preparation for the commission of the crime, as well as any property obtained by or income generated from the sale, conversion, or exchange of that property and any gain realized by that sale, conversion, or exchange.