Question juridique clé
Whether the appellate court arbitrarily assessed the defendant's earning capacity for the period 1997-2007.
Solution extraite
Yes. The court ignored relevant evidence about coercive life circumstances, health problems, and the limits of relying on tax estimates and unchallenged observations.
Motifs extraits
The lower court inferred that the defendant should have expanded irregular sex work and generated surplus income, but it failed to consider her lack of training, addiction history, medical issues, and the limits of the evidentiary basis. For the later period it also relied improperly on tax assessments and undisclosed investigative observations.