MADDOG · Posted on Oct. 22 2010,3:01 pm
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Was she given enough? Has there been vindication? I guess that's up to the individual families.
The victims family members HAVE HAD NO SAY and NO CHOICE in anything about the criminal proceedings, from start to finish.
Further, when it comes to the criminal process in the U.S. and victim's rights...there isn't any difference between an elderly person with Alzheimer's and an elderly person with full cognitive and memory recall capabilities to report and give a statement to law enforcement.
Every crime victim or witness to a crime has the right to REPORT it to law enforcement. What happens after that is completely and 100% out of their control and absent of their input.
