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Sentencing Criminals: The Constitutionality Of Victim Impact Statements, Carrie L. Mulholland
Sentencing Criminals: The Constitutionality Of Victim Impact Statements, Carrie L. Mulholland
Missouri Law Review
Most jurisdictions around the country permit juries to consider victim impact statements, statements taken from the family of a victim of violent crime relating to the family's loss, during the sentencing phase of criminal trials. In 1994, the Missouri Supreme Court followed this trend in State v. Wise by approving the use of victim impact statements, and allowing the statements to be presented to the jury at the sentencing stage of a capital punishment trial. Despite the constitutionality of the introduction of a victim's family's statements, the statements have been severely criticized for: (1) rendering the sentencing of a criminal …
Indigent Defense Systems In The United States, Robert L. Spangenberg, Marea L. Beeman
Indigent Defense Systems In The United States, Robert L. Spangenberg, Marea L. Beeman
Law and Contemporary Problems
Spangenberg and Beeman describe the structure and funding of the systems of delivery of legal services to indigent criminal defendents in use at the state level, including assigned counsel, contract attorneys and public defenders.