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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ohio voters approved Marsy’s Law as a constitutional amendment in 2017. It included a series of measures meant to protect victims of crime. The Legislature took years to turn the amendment into ...
Illinois' Marsy's Law was one of several efforts to expand Marsy's Law across the U.S. following its successful adoption in California. Voters in South Dakota [3] [4] and Montana [5] adopted their own versions of Marsy's Law in 2016, but the Montana measure was held unconstitutional by the Montana Supreme Court before it was implemented. [6]
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.
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 ...