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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.
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 ...
Marsy’s Law provides victims with clear and enforceable rights on the same constitutional level as those of the accused. These rights include the right to be notified of all criminal proceedings ...
As of October 2023, 17 states had passed Marsy's Law provisions. However, last November the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Marsy's Law does not guarantee anonymity for police officers or any victim.
The Victim's Bill of Rights added Section 28 to Article 1 of the constitution. This section has since been substantially added to and amended by Marsy's Law, enacted in 2008. Section 28 granted victims of crime the right to restitution from the perpetrator unless there were "compelling and extraordinary reasons" to the contrary. It also ...
Marsy's Law is no doubt well-intentioned, but the courts and the legislature should give serious thought to the issues raised by the adoption of 2930.07. As Martin Luther King once said, "the time ...
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 ...
Columbus police cited Ohio's version of Marsy's Law in denying The Dispatch's requests for records, including body camera footage, multiple times this year. The court has yet to rule on the complaint.