Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
9-2018
Abstract
This amicus brief in Bucklew v. Precythe discusses how undue delay in capital cases can harm crime victims’ families. After reviewing the facts of the cases, the brief draws on the available scholarship to show how extended delays in criminal cases – and particularly death penalty cases – can compound the harms and exacerbate the trauma that victims’ families suffer. The brief concludes that the important interests of victims should be vindicated by affirming the judgment reached below.
Recommended Citation
Cassell, Paul; Ho, Allyson N.; Nowicki, Daniel; and Chen, Daniel, "Bucklew v. Precythe : Brief of Arizona Voice for Crime Victims, Inc., and Melissa Sanders as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents" (2018). Utah Law Faculty Scholarship. 123.
https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/123