Victim Rights Professional Resources
Professional Resources
NCVLI provides a variety of resources to attorneys and advocates who work with or directly represent victims of crime in criminal cases. In addition to the resources outlined below, NCVLI also files amicus curiae briefs explaining the national implications of cases to courts and suggests how their decisions will impact future victims.
Resources
Victim Law Library
NCVLI’s Victim Law Library contains victims’ rights laws, organized by jurisdiction, and legal publications about crime victims’ rights.
Rights Enforcement Toolkit
NCVLI’s Rights Enforcement Toolkit includes a variety of resources that are designed to assist practitioners with effectively asserting and seeking enforcement of victims’ rights.
Membership Alliance – NAVRA (National Alliance of Victims’ Rights Attorneys & Advocates)
The National Alliance of Victims’ Rights Attorneys & Advocates (NAVRA) is NCVLI’s membership alliance of attorneys, advocates, law students, and other persons interested in advancing victims’ rights. NAVRA has a dedicated website (www.navra.org) that provides a wealth of important resources to its membership, including searchable databases of hundreds of case summaries, amicus briefs, pleadings, and other resources.
Training, Technical Assistance & Amicus Support
Projects
Training, Technical Assistance & Amicus Support
NCVLI provides technical assistance on victims’ rights issues in the form of legal research and educational writing to attorneys, advocates, judges, and legislatures across the country.
Projects
NCVLI runs a number of projects dedicated to addressing some of the most critical legal issues facing victims today.
New & Noteworthy Cases
NCVLI researches and reviews critical victims’ rights cases issued nationwide and publishes summaries of these cases. Each case summary identifies the critical underlying facts, the court’s reasoning, and the court’s holding. The noteworthy case summaries from the past year are available below. A searchable database of these and older case summaries is available for Enhanced NAVRA members at www.navra.org.
NCVLI Partners with Equal Justice Works on New Grant Project.
NCVLI to partner on new grant to mobilize legal fellows to provide no-cost legal services to victims of crime in underserved communities.
2022 Voices For Justice Award Recipients
2022 Voices For Justice Award RecipientsVictims’ Rights Partnership Voice for Justice AwardRana Alexander has worked in the domestic and sexual violence field since 1997. Ms. Alexander joined...
United States v. Mellette, 81 M.J. 681 (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. 2021)
Defendant, a former servicemember, was convicted of child sexual abuse in violation of Article 120b, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Defendant appealed, arguing, inter alia, that the...
United States v. Henry, 81 M.J. 91 (C.A.A.F. 2021)
Defendant, charged with assault of his spouse, filed a motion to suppress statements by his child and wife as hearsay. The military judge, rejecting the government’s argument that the statements...
Fla. Police Benevolent Ass’n v. City of Tallahassee, 314 So. 3d 796 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021)
Appellants—two law enforcement officers who used deadly force as part of separate incidents that resulted in the deaths of the individuals suspected of committing crimes—appealed from the trial...
In re State, 599 S.W.3d 577 (Tex. Ct. App. 2020)
The state filed a petition for writ of mandamus after the district court issued sealed and public discovery orders in a family violence assault case, ratifying defendant’s improperly-issued subpoena...
State v. McAllister, 939 N.W.2d 502 (N.D. 2020)
Defendant appealed from a criminal judgment and order for restitution after a jury found him guilty of assault. Among various bases for appeal, defendant argued that his constitutional right to...
State v. Rieker, 461 P.3d 1083 (Or. Ct. App. 2020)
Defendant pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants. He was sentenced to probation, with restitution to be determined within 90 days. Approximately 9 months later, the state filed...
In re J.H., 260 Cal. Rptr. 3d 847 (Cal. Ct. App. 2020)
Juvenile defendant was ordered to pay restitution as part of a delinquency adjudication. After his wardship terminated and writs of execution were issued for the unpaid restitution balance, the...
