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Blonde Justice on the Most Random of Victim Statements

By Bruce Carton

This week on the Blonde Justice blog (which I now recall I started following because I liked its name and its tagline, borrowed from Jay-Z's "H to the Izzo"), the anonymous Blonde Justice writes about an odd victim statement she witnessed in criminal court. The defendant had been arrested for vehicular homicide after hitting a young woman. He had already pleaded guilty and was before the court for sentencing. The law permits a "victim statement" in such hearings, Blonde Justice writes, but here the victim had died and her family did not come to court. Instead of submitting letters from the family or simply making her own speech about the loss the victim's family had suffered, however, the prosecutor instead stated that she "would like to read something the victim had written prior to her death," which went something like this: I like milkshakes, chocolate milkshakes are my favorite. I took piano lessons in fourth grade, but I never got very good. I want to paint my bedroom red. If I ever get a tattoo, it will be a butterfly on my ankle. I'll do anything for a chocolate chip cookie. I have been to Disney Land twice. According to...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).