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.
State v. Reed, 456 P.3d 453 (Ariz. 2020)
Defendant was convicted of voyeurism and ordered to pay restitution. Defendant appealed the restitution order, but died while the appeal was pending. The court of appeals dismissed the appeal...
E.H. v. Slayton, 468 P.3d 1209 (Ariz., 2020)
Defendants pled guilty to charges of child endangerment or child abuse in connection with the death of a six-year old victim. Pursuant to the plea agreement, defendants agreed to pay restitution...
L.T. v. State, 296 So. 3d 490 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2020)
Juvenile defendant was arrested and taken into custody for molesting another minor. An attorney filed a Notice of Appearance (NOA) asserting that she would act as the victim’s legal counsel, and...
People v. Turner, No. D075237, 2020 WL 828701 (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 20, 2020)
Defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of felony welfare fraud and, as a condition of probation, was ordered to pay nearly $5,000 of victim restitution to the state. She filed a motion to have her...
