“There is nothing good about this law.”
Do you believe the defendant should NOT know who is the Accuser?
“Do you believe the defendant should NOT know who is the Accuser?”
Colorado doesn’t think so. Red Flag.
> Do you believe the defendant should NOT know who is the Accuser? <
You have the right to face your accuser (and any testifying witnesses) in a court of law. But you do not have the right to know just where those folks live.
And you do not have the right to harass your accuser on the sidewalk in front of his house. But that’s exactly what’s going to happen here.
Sure, at the trial.
Depositions in the DA’s office of the accuser by the accused or the accused’s lawyer are possible.
Written interrogatories are also possible.
The accused has a right to confront his accuser in court regardless of these “reforms.” It is the information like phone numbers and addresses and any private information the state has about the accuser that is now required to be furnished to the accused, like phone numbers and once the lawyers and judges push it farther and farther, where the accused works and where he vacations and any other information the state has or can be expected to have like maybe like ID numbers and assets.- This will subject accusers to revenge and to extortion and theft.
they should but only during trial. The risk for intimidation is simply to great otherwise.