§ 137.107 Authority of court to amend part of judgment relating to restitution

If a court orders someone to pay restitution as part of their sentence, but the paperwork wasn't filled out correctly, the court can go back and fix it. This applies even if a lot of time has passed since the original sentencing.

This rule specifically covers cases where the judge included restitution as part of the sentence, but the written judgment didn't follow the proper legal format required at the time. Instead of forcing everyone to start over with a new case or appeal, the court can simply correct the paperwork so it matches the legal requirements. This only applies to formatting problems with older judgments, from before January 1, 2004.

In practical terms, this means if you were ordered to pay restitution and the original court document had a technical error in how it was written, the court has the power to correct that error later on. It doesn't change whether you owe restitution or how much, it just fixes how that requirement was written into your case record.