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The Marsy’s Law case made it to the Supreme Court after two unrelated incidents in which TPD officers shot and killed suspects who were armed and threatening them in 2020 — the same year that ...
Prior to the passage of Marsy’s Law, named for Marsalee Ann Nicholas, a college student in California with Cincinnati ties who was killed by her former boyfriend, it was standard practice for ...
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Marsy's Law, the California Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008, enacted by voters as Proposition 9 through the initiative process in the November 2008 general election, is an amendment to the state's constitution and certain penal code sections.
After the murder of her daughter, Marsalee (Marsy) Nicholas in 1983, she helped build Justice for Homicide Victims, one of California's early victims' rights organizations. [2] Her late daughter is the namesake for Marsy's Law , the California Constitutional Amendment and Victims' Bill of Rights, which appeared on the November, 2008, ballot as ...
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If it's a tough sell on the facts, give it a sympathetic face and name such as "Marsy's Law" (Prop. 9, victims' rights and parole) or "Sarah's Law" (Prop. 4, parental notification on abortion). Prepare to spend a bundle on soft-focus television advertising and hope voters don't notice the fine print or the independent analyses of good ...
Western Circuit Judge Lawton Stephens ruled Monday that District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez violated a crime victim's rights.