06:32 PM CDT on Wednesday, May 14, 2008

By Kevin Reece / KHOU 11 News

HOUSTON—Ten years after Steve Hardin’s family laid him to rest in Houston’s Brookside Cemetery, they got a moral victory Tuesday.

The man who killed Hardin now owes more than $10,000 in restitution to the family.

And that’s not all. Like millions of Americans, Hardin’s killer is due a tax rebate check, but he’s not going to get it.

Crime victims advocate Andy Kahan got the judge to make Barry Crawford forfeit that money as part of his probation.

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