Fachumonn wrote:Sorry for double post but:Crime Victims' Rights Act wrote:“crime victim” as a person in a criminal prosecution who has been directly and proximately ?, reword this sentence. emotionally, physically, or financially harmed (presumably or allegedly), or has been threatened to be harmed as a result of the criminal misconduct of another who is not simultaneously accused of another crime that occurred as a result from the same incident or occurrence.
“the accused” as a person who has been formally charged with a crime based on the evidence that they have currently or recently committed a criminal offense against the crime victim in a related case.
“critical stage of the prosecution” as any date or event in which a vital or jurisdictional component of the case is resolved or decided, including release hearings, hearings relating to the trial’s scheduling, preliminary hearings, plea hearings, parole and probation hearings, trials, sentencing's,(add apostrophe) and other events deemed critical in the national justice system in question.
Fixed.