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"Protecting Crime Victims in Federal Appellate Courts"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the first part of the title of former-judge and now Professor Paul Cassell's latest article advocating for the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act to be given a broad reading. This article is available here via SSRN and its full title is "Protecting Crime Victims in Federal Appellate Courts: The Need to Broadly Construe the Crime Victims' Rights Act's Mandamus Provisions."  Here is the start of the piece's abstract: In 2004, Congress passed the Crime Victims? Rights Act to dramatically reshape the federal criminal justice system and ensure that crime victims are treated fairly in the criminal process. An important feature of the CVRA is its provisions allowing victims to enforce their rights not only in trial courts, but also in appellate courts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).