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2007 Utah L. Rev. 861 (2007)
Treating Crime Victims Fairly: Integrating Victims into the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedures

handle is hein.journals/utahlr2007 and id is 869 raw text is: TREATING CRIME VICTIMS FAIRLY: INTEGRATING VICTIMS INTO THE FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Paul G. Cassell* 1. IN TRO D U CTIO N .............................................................................................. 863 II. VICTIMS' RIGHTS, THE CVRA, AND AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES .............. 865 A. The Crime Victims' Rights M ovement .................................................... 865 B. The Crime Victims' Rights Act ............................................................... 869 C. My Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of C rim inal P rocedure ............................................................................... 870 D. The Criminal Rules Committee Proposals ............................................. 871 III. THE CVRA'S RIGHT TO FAIRNESS REQUIRES COMPREHENSIVE CHANGES TO PROTECT V ICTIM S ..................................................................................... 872 A. The CVRA's Text and Legislative History Create a Substantive R ight to F airness .................................................................................... 873 B. The Advisory Committee Treats the Right to Fairness Inconsistently ...877 C. The Advisory Committee Should Not Leave the CVRA 's Interpretation to the Litigation P rocess ........................................................................ 878 IV. SPECIFIC RULE CHANGES TO COMPLY WITH THE CVRA ............................. 880 Rule 1-Definition of Victim and Victim's Representative ............... 880 Rule 2- Fairness to Victim s ........................................................................... 883 Rule 11(a) (3)-Victims' Views on Nolo Contendere Pleas ........................... 885 Rule 11(b)(4)-Victims'Right To Be Heard on Pleas ................................... 886 Rule 11(c) (1)-Prosecution To Consider Victims' Views on Pleas ............... 887 Rule 11 (c) (2)-Court to Be Advised of Victim Objections to Plea ............... 889 Rules 12.1 and 12.3-Victim Addresses and Phone Numbers Not Disclosed for Alibi and Public-Authority Defense Purposes ................. 891 Rule 15-Victims' Right to Attend Pretrial Depositions ............................... 900 Rule 17-Victims'Right to Notice of Subpoena of Confidential Inform a tion ............................................................................................ 90 1 (1) The problem of subpoenaing confidential victim information ....... 904 (2) Procedural problems with the Advisory Committee approach ...... 905 (3) The lack of a basis for defense subpoenas for confidential inform ation ..................................................................................... 9 10 Rule 18-Victims'Interests in Setting the Place of Prosecution ................... 920 Rule 20--Victims' Views Considered Regarding Consensual Transfer ........ 921 * Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 2002-07. Thanks to Sara Sun Beale, Doug Beloof, Doug Berman, Russell Butler, Matt Cannon, Meg Garvin, Nancy King, Erik Luna, Peter McCabe, Benjamin McMurray, Ross McPhail, Dan Medwed, Wendy Murphy, Daphne Oberg, Jim Oleson, Judge James Orenstein, Alice Ristroph, Greg Skordas, Felise Thorpe Moll, Steve Twist, Stewart Young, and especially my wife Trish.

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