Abstract
After years of struggle, we now know that the only way to make respect for the rights of crime victims "incorporated with the national sentiment" is to make these rights a part of the sovereign instrument of the whole people, the Constitution. The movement for constitutional rights for crime victims, properly understood, constitutes neither an attack on the rights of defendants, nor on the power of public prosecutors, but rather is a movement to save these two good and perfect things in the American justice system by tempering their excessive virtue with true balance. Indeed, this Amendment just might save the very things its critics fear it will destroy.
Recommended Citation
Twist, Steven J.
(1999)
"The Crime Victims' Rights Amendment and Two Good and Perfect Things,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1999:
No.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1999/iss2/5