I know that yours isn’t a cry for sympathy, so I will offer empathy instead. Our family member was murdered in 2002, and while healing happens, it IS aggravated by the judicial system! The States are worse than the Federal Government.
Our ‘’trial’’ was at the Federal level, and our transportation and rooms were paid for via the government.
The last trial took place in 2004, and all appeals have been denied so we await what might never happen. An execution.
I’ve read so many accounts of the state governments causing further injury to murder victim survivors, that I had to stop! The prosecutors at the federal level saw themselves as speaking up for us, the family, but I’ve read accounts where plea deals so reduced sentences that it wasn’t worth going to trial for, and how prosecutors at the state level tend not to see themselves as acquiring justice on behalf of the injured families.
In any event, high profile trials cost millions whether they are death penalty cases, or not.
And I really AM sorry you lost your little one. In this country, at least till these days when it seems nearly anything goes, loosing a child in this manner was the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It’s a feeling and an impact like none other.
I do hope the marathon victims actually achieve victory, and that justice is truly served.
Only when victims band together do we see changes happen. We managed to bounce 1 state anti-DP State Supreme Justices Penny White, we almost got a 2nd but since he was black, you know he screamed racism. IDIOT blacks don’t know friend from foe in politics. We couldn’t touch the US District anti-DP nut job.
Let a politician or judges child/grand be the victim, you see law changes the next year. Happened in TN. One of the big wig judges had his daughter and 2 grands killed by a DUI, and laws were changed the next legislative session.
TN is 1 of the few states that NOW have State Constitutional Rights for crime victims
I will empathize for you too. Only good thing the feds did was go to a 85% serve rate, other than that they stink as bad as state government crime laws.