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A Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Protect Crime Victims S. HRG. 106±269 A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROTECT CRIME VICTIMS HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S.J. Res. 3 A BILL PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF CRIME VICTIMS MARCH 24, 1999 Serial No. J±106±10 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 61±438 CC WASHINGTON : 2000 VerDate 11-SEP-98 09:06 Feb 09, 2000 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 MARCH24.TXT SJUD2 PsN: SJUD2 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah, Chairman STROM THURMOND, South Carolina PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware JON KYL, Arizona HERBERT KOHL, Wisconsin MIKE DEWINE, Ohio DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California JOHN ASHCROFT, Missouri RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin SPENCER ABRAHAM, Michigan ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York BOB SMITH, New Hampshire MANUS COONEY, Chief Counsel and Staff Director BRUCE A. COHEN, Minority Chief Counsel (II) VerDate 11-SEP-98 09:06 Feb 09, 2000 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0486 Sfmt 0486 MARCH24.TXT SJUD2 PsN: SJUD2 C O N T E N T S STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Page Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., U.S. Senator from the State of Utah ................................ 1, 2 Leahy, Hon. Patrick J., U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont .......................57, 59 Ashcroft, Hon. John, U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri ............................ 71 Feingold, Hon. Russell D., U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin ................74, 76 Feinstein, Hon. Dianne, U.S. Senator from the State of California .................... 77 Kyl, Hon. Jon, U.S. Senator from the State of Arizona ........................................ 84 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Panel consisting of Steven J. Twist, assistant general counsel, Viad Corp., Phoenix, AZ; Beth A. Wilkinson, Latham and Watkins, Washington, DC; and Paul G. Cassell, professor of law, University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT ............................................................................................... 8 ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIALS SUBMITTED Cassell, Paul G.: Testimony .......................................................................................................... 22 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 25 Feinstein, Hon. Dianne: Submitted Court Order, (cited as: 958 F.Supp. 512) ..................................... 81 Twist, Stephen J.: Testimony .......................................................................................................... 8 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 11 Wilkinson, Beth A: Testimony .......................................................................................................... 18 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 20 APPENDIX PROPOSED LEGISLATION S.J. Res. 3, a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the rights of crime victims ...................................................... 89 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Responses of Steven J. Twist to questions from Senators: Hatch ................................................................................................................. 93 Leahy ................................................................................................................. 93 Responses of Beth Wilkinson to questions from Senators: Hatch ................................................................................................................. 96 Leahy ................................................................................................................. 96 Kyl ..................................................................................................................... 98 Responses of Paul Cassell to questions from Senator: Leahy ................................................................................................................. 99 ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Article: U.S. Department of Justice, ``New Directions from the Field: Victims' Rights and Services for the 21st Century'' ......................................................... 108 Article: U.S. Department of Justice, ``The Rights of Crime VictimsÐDoes Legal Protection Make a Difference?,'' dated December 1998 .......................... 151 (III) VerDate 11-SEP-98 09:06 Feb 09, 2000 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 MARCH24.TXT SJUD2 PsN: SJUD2 IV Page Prepared statements of: Douglas Beloof and Dean James Huffman on behalf of Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College .................................................. 162 James E. Doyle ................................................................................................. 163 Marsha A. Kight ............................................................................................... 164 Marsha A. Kight in response to the testimony of Beth A. Wilkinson .......... 167 Anne McCloskey ............................................................................................... 169 Karolyn V. Nunnallee ...................................................................................... 169 William T. Pizzi ................................................................................................ 171 Article prepared by William T. Pizzi and Walter Perron ....................... 181 Roberta Roper on behalf of the National Victim's Constitutional Amend- ment Network ............................................................................................... 199 Joe Sikes on behalf of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving ......................... 201 Virginia E. Sloan on behalf of the Citizens for the Constitution ................. 202 Debra A. Tall on behalf of the Anne Arundel County, Maryland Police Department ................................................................................................... 215 Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Uni- versity Law School ........................................................................................ 216 David L. Voth on behalf of the Crime Victim Services ................................. 218 Jan Withers on behalf of the Stephanie Roper Foundation and Mothers Against Drunk Driving ................................................................................. 219 Marlene A. Young on behalf of the National Organization for Victim Assistance ...................................................................................................... 220 Bruce Fein on behalf of the Citizens for the Fair Treatment of Victims ..... 224 Letters to: Senate Judiciary Committee from Helene Cantrell, Talisheek, LA, dated Mar. 10, 1999 ................................................................................................ 225 Senator Barbara Mikulski, from Kay Cummins, co-chair, Victim Services Advisory Board, Montgomery County, MD, dated Mar. 10, 1999 ............. 225 Representative Paul Ryan, from Senator Joanne Huelsman, and Eileen Connolly-Keesler, co-chairs, Governor's Council on Domestic Abuse, Madison, WI, dated Mar. 11, 1999 .............................................................. 226 Senator Kyl, from John Lyon, victim assistant, Department of Health and Human Services, Montgomery County, MD, dated Mar. 8, 1999 ...... 226 Senators Hatch and Leahy, from Sue Osthoff, director, National Clearing- house for the Defense of Battered Women, Philadelphia, PA, dated Mar. 22, 1999 ................................................................................................ 227 Position Paper On Proposed Victim's Rights Amendment ..................... 227 Senators Hatch and Leahy, from Gordon J. Campbell, executive director, Victim Services, New York, NY, dated Mar. 23, 1999 ............................... 231 Senator Hatch, from Donna F. Edwards, executive director, National Network to End Domestic Violence, Washington DC, dated Mar. 23, 1999 ................................................................................................................ 232 Senator Leahy, from Robert P. Mosteller, professor of law, Duke Univer- sity School of Law, Durham, NC, dated Mar. 23, 1999 ............................. 233 Article: The Unnecessary Victims' Rights Amendment, Professor Rob- ert P. Mosteller ...................................................................................... 234 Senator Leahy, from Lynne Henderson, professor of law, Diana Universty, School of Law Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, dated Mar. 23, 1999 .......................................................................................................... 247 Summary of Arguments Contained in ``Revisiting Victims' Rights'' by Lynne Henderson Forthcoming, 1999 Utah Law Review .............. 247 Senator John Ashcroft, from Joseph R. Weisberger, chief justice, Supreme Court of Rhode Island Chairperson, CCJ Task Force on Victim Rights, Conference of Chief Justices, Office of Government Relations, Arling- ton, VA, dated Mar. 19, 1999 ....................................................................... 251 VerDate 11-SEP-98 09:06 Feb 09, 2000 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904
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