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Dianne Feinstein: “The rights in question--rights of crime victims not to be victimized yet again, through the processes by which…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 1998
The rights in question--rights of crime victims not to be victimized yet again, through the processes by which Government bodies and officials prosecute, punish, and release the accused or convicted offender--are indisputably basic human rights against government, rights that any civilized society of justice would aspire to protect and strive never to violate. Our Constitution's central concerns involve protecting the rights of individuals to participate in all those governmental processes that directly and immediately involve those individuals and affect their lives in some focused and particular way.
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California
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Discussing the need for a constitutional amendment to protect the rights of crime victims.

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