happened over the last couple decades is through the victim s rights movement, is to get exceptions put into the law, and into the court rules to allow the family to be there, and to have that kind of impact, if you will, literally throughout the trial on the jury. so it has an enormous impact. i will tell you, though, if the family continues to stand up and absent themselves in front of the jury, you will see the defense object to this, you ll see the defense ask that they be excluded for any particular witness. or have the judge exercise discretion in terms of barring them from the courtroom. you re not going to be able to defense stand by mutely while it happens. sunny, you believe the prosecution was effective today, especially for an all female jury? no question about it, this prosecutor looks like a young kevin costner to me from that movie no way out. i was looking at him, and so were all the female jurors, they were riveted, they couldn t look away.
decades is through the victim s rights movement, is to get exceptions put into the law, and into the court rules to allow the family to be there, and to have that kind of impact, if you will, literally throughout the trial on the jury. so it has an enormous impact. i will tell you, though, if the family continues to stand up and absent themselves in front of the jury, you will see the defense object to this, you ll see the defense ask that they be excluded for any particular witness. or have the judge exercise discretion in terms of barring them from the courtroom. you re not going to be able to continue to do this and have the defense stand by mutually while it happens. sunny, you believe the prosecution was effective today, especially for an all female jury? no question about it, this prosecutor looks like a young kevin costner to me from that movie no way out. i was looking at him, and so were all the female jurors, they
happened over the last couple decades is through the victim s rights movement, is to get exceptions put into the law, and into the court rules to allow the family to be there, and to have that kind of impact, if you will, literally throughout the trial on the jury. so it has an enormous impact. i will tell you, though, if the family continues to stand up and absent themselves in front of the jury, you will see the defense object to this, you ll see the defense ask that they be excluded for any particular witness. or have the judge exercise discretion in terms of barring them from the courtroom. you re not going to be able to continue to do this and have the defense stand by mutually while it happens. sunny, you believe the prosecution was effective today, especially for an all female jury? no question about it, this prosecutor looks like a young kevin costner to me from that movie no way out. i was looking at him, and so were all the female jurors, they
to prosecuting violent crime honestly. she s a very, very involved in the victim s rights movement. some critics say that she loses sight of her obligation because she is so determined to get justice for victims. so you know, that is her nature. and it s never stopped her from doing a good job or being a tenacious prosecutor. but some people do believe that it causes problems in her perspective. now, ken, the most controversial case prior to the trayvon case was the case of christian fernandez, a 12-year-old, cori is charging with first degree murder as an adult. when she explained how she deals with victims first, prosecution style, listen to her. i ll read it to you. sometimes, this is her saying this, sometimes the people murdered aren t innocent.
but of course that was the core experience of his life. did he know how the system treats victims of crime? oh, yes he did. so he introduced oklahoma s first victims rights act. the jury never hears one word about the family or not considering how brutal that crime was. this person took another individual s life in these cases. the victims rights movement was in its infancy then. he met resistance from judges and prosecutors. there were judges, there were state senators who had championed the rights of the accused. and certainly the accused is entitled to basic rights. and but there s a long tradition of that. it s a relatively new phenomena that we provide some rights to the victims of crimes. and back when when brooks and i first began in the senate,