VICTIMS OF CRIME ARE MET WITH MORE CORRUPTION, NOT JUSTICE
by Mae West
(Jan. 30, 2011) — The Tennessee District Attorneys General website states:
By Virtue of being a victim, you have certain rights as provided by Article 1, section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee.
1. The right to confer with the prosecution.
2. The right to be free from initimdation, harassment, and abuse throughout the criminal justice system.
3. The right to be present at all proceedings where the defendant has the right to be present.
4. The right to be heard, when relevant, at all critical stages of the criminal justice process as defined by the statute.
5. The right to be informed of all the proceedings and the release, transfer, escape, or recapture of the accused or convicted person.
6. The right to a speedy trial or disposition and a prompt and final conclusion of the case after the conviction or sentence.
7. The right to restitution from the defender.
8. The right to be informed of each of the rights established for victims.
The following phone numbers are for your information and convenience in excercising your rights:
Victims of Crime State Coordinating Council – 1-800-289-9018
Criminal Injuries Compensation Program – (615) 741-2734
Statewide Victim Witness Coordinator – (615) 532-5591
Probation and Parole – (615) 741-1150
Tennessee Department of Correction – (615) 741-1000 Ext. 4006
Tenn. Attorney General (appeals Info only) – (615) 532-1971
Editor’s Note: The misspelled words are taken directly from the DAG website.
Section 35 of the Tennessee constitution is repeated in Section 35 of the Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA).
In 1986, the Tennessee assembly created a “Victims of Crime Assistance Fund” known as TCA 9-4-205, giving the impression that victims of crime are taken care of in the “Agriculture and Commerce” state.
Why, then, is it so difficult for a person to obtain justice, especially a child victim? And what about victims of police brutality? What about children who are knowingly abused because of political cronyism and corruption?
Since elected officials do not respond to complaints of the victimization of their constituents and tourism is a major source of revenue for this thoroughly corrupt state, prospective tourists can change their plans.
Spring is coming, and Tennessee wants your money to fund its outlaw courts, sheriffs’ departments, district attorneys general, prosecutors, public defenders, uninhabitable jails, tainted grand juries, and treason. What would happen if the revenue anticipated from tourist “commerce” failed to materialize?
Thank you Sharon for this article.
Yes, the TN General Assembly has adopted these victim rights, however there is no civil recourse whatsoever for governmental authorities who violate those victims rights, as an immunity clause for those officials has been included with the victim legislation. This is outright lunacy.
I conferred once with the victims advocate at the State Attorney Generals office, of Robert Cooper. I asked why this legislation and law was enacted this way. I was told by the state victim’s advocate, that victims rights are “relatively new” to Tennessee and that I should be glad we have this. What?
Therefore, in a good ole boy community like Monroe County, Sevier County, Hamilton County, Hawkins county etc (…an official can knowingly and willfully violate a crime victims rights, regardless of age, even if that crime victim is a child who was shot in the face and leg, who’s shooter was permitted to walk away without an indictment, due to the shooters elite political pull with the Sheriffs office, and the other officials with the district attorneys office have allowed and enabled the only witness to the grand jury, being a law enforcement officer to lie to the grand jury under oath stating that no one was hurt, constituting aggravated perjury, thus not producing an indictment? This was done by the sheriffs office and DA, and judiciary, because they do not like the family in Sevier County that speaks out against governmental corruption threatening their sordid way of life? Does that jive with number 2 of the victims rights legislation? (yes, you are right, they cannot spell here either.)
2. The right to be free from initimdation, harassment, and abuse throughout the criminal justice system.
I do believe that the wild west days of Judge Roy Bean were much safer.
TN reeks of misconduct and malfeasance of the worst kind and one is in bed with the other, all the way up the ladder.
It may really be too late here.
Conditions here are not progressive, they are not even Pre-antebellum…they have deteriorated to something very primitive and ugly.
It is the lowest form of cowardice when law enforcement will hide behind the facade of legitimacy to victimize the general public. It is truly surreal how they have fostered so much cooperation, from the judges, prosecutors, and public defenders, to the mindless obedience of lowly court clerks.
Only true evil can explain this kind of corruption, and the more light shone on it the extent of the corruption only becomes more apparent. It seems those in a position of oversight are just as involved in the corruption.
I don’t know how these people live with themselves, and not in fear of each other. I guess that’s just more proof of their cowardice and evil.
All tyranny begins “for the good of the people”. It is the justification for every unconstitutional law we have as well as the deeply embedded corruption which permeates every aspect of our society. It will only end when we the people end it.
Those of you who know me well have seen this before:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” –C.S. Lewis
The good of the people is a most noble cause. Sadly, since the inception of our Constitution, sincerity has suffered through atrophy of the integrity of those we foolishly
trust with our freedom.
Thomas Jefferson gave many warnings of how easily the Constitution could be corrupted
if “we the people” did not maintain a close eye and a firm hand on those intrusted with
such power.