THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - Phil Federic, Eddie Hagood, Lana Beth Layton and Jhada Peterson are just a few crime victims in South Georgia. Keyanna Peterson lost her 2-year-old daughter, Jhada, after she ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama will observe Crime Victims’ Rights Month throughout April after Gov. Kay Ivey expanded the state’s traditional recognition of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week into ...
The victims' rights movement is rooted in America's long tradition of private prosecution, in which crime victims were able to initiate and pursue their own criminal prosecutions. I've just posted on ...
Renee Williams, lawyer and CEO of the National Center for Victims of Crime, and Jennifer McGuffin, Chief Communications Officer at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC and member of the Board of Directors for the ...
Let’s start with the Crime Victims Rights Act (CVRA). Passed by Congress in 2004—out of concern that the government too often ignored or dismissed the legitimate interests of crime victims—the CVRA ...
When someone becomes the victim of a crime, their world changes in an instant. In those moments, they need compassion, clarity and a justice system that truly sees and hears them. Our partners in law ...
More than five years ago, a voter-approved constitutional amendment increased and expanded the rights of crime victims across the state of North Carolina. Many prosecutors opposed the change before ...
This is the third and concluding post serializing my comprehensive law review article on the past, present, and future of the crime victims' rights movement. Earlier I blogged about the movement's ...
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