Questions tagged [victims-rights]
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Court decides that Rob must pay Alice. Is she obliged to take the payment?
Reading this article where a crime victim rejected a $200 payment that the court had ordered the offender to pay her made me think: what happens now? Is she obliged to take it?
If she doesn't provide her bank account number, would the offender be…
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Do victims have a right to be informed of the follow-up or lack thereof on their crime reports?
Meet Alice. She was assaulted and reported this to the police while offering them evidence of the assault.
They tell her the report has been duly noted, thank her for her time, and wish her a nice day.
Does she have a right to see what investigative…
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Does a crime victim have to believe they were a victim of a crime?
For a crime to have taken place, does the victim have to consider themselves a victim?
Bob and Sue are colleagues. They both get very drunk at the Xmas office party and have sex in a shop doorway on the way home. They're spotted by a passing police…
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Is it ethical for Victims Advocates to Be Paid By District Attorney Offices
I recently spent 2.5 years tied up in a case as a sexual assault victim. Since I had been intoxicated at the time I only had the knowledge that this person was over me and with his pants down, I asked the police the police the police to issue a…
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How to get a criminal case moving forward as a victim of a crime?
About four days ago I was assaulted by an individual between the ages of 16 to 25. He struck me in the back of my head as hard as he could, as him and his friends passed me on bikes. I had heart palpitations from the event, and was reasonably afraid…
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Can victim's family request a stay of execution?
Let's say you have a family member murdered in a state that has the death penalty. If you think that the death penalty for people who don't believe in an afterlife is too much of a merciful punishment, can you request that the perpetrator rather get…
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What is the legality of police wielding obscurantist legal sophistry against the public?
Alice is at a protest and gets into an altercation with another group. She shouts various lawful slogans towards them, and they report her to the police who arrive, seeking to “deescalate” the situation even while no crimes have even arguably been…
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