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Will Criminals Receive Due Process If Marsy’s Law Passes?

By Steven Rodriguez

Victims’ rights are a hot political issue in California this election. Proponents of California Proposition 9, also called Marsy’s Law and the Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights, say it will give crime victims the same rights as accused and convicted criminals (see our Sept. 24 post). But crime victims in California already have most of these rights. Most of measures listed in the Prop. 9 Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights were adopted into California law 26 years ago when voters approved a similar measure. What Prop. 9 does is move these measures from statute to constitutional law. It’s an important difference and one that concerns many in the legal community. Statutes that don’t work correctly or are found to have unexpected and unintended consequences can be fairly easily changed by the passing of new laws...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).