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Law review article excerpt / legal document
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Summary
This document is an excerpt from a 2005 BYU Law Review article discussing the integration of the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) into the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. It argues that current federal rules largely ignore crime victims and outlines necessary amendments to ensure victims have rights to notice, presence, and participation in criminal proceedings.
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| Name | Role | Context |
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| David Schoen |
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| Congress | ||
| Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules |
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passage of the CVRA
enactment of the CVRA
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Key Quotes (3)
"Crime victims are absent from the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure."Source
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"Yet amazingly, the current rules substantively use the word "victim" only a single time."Source
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"Although the CVRA is a federal statute that automatically trumps any conflicting procedural rule, procedural rules drive day-to-day courtroom practices."Source
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