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inlawrev-3701	Staggs, Tim E.	Legacy of a Scandal: How John Geoghan's Death May Serve as an Impetus to Bring Abatement Ab Initio in Line with the Victims' Rights Movement	2005	26	.pdf	application/pdf	13510	710	60	ST. L. J. 531, 533-34 (2002) ([T]hey were 'pushed aside, forgotten, ignored, [and] diminished by a [criminal justice] system too skewed in favor of the accused.') (alterations in original) (quoting Editorial, Itlsn 't All Bad, PHOENIX Gazette, Nov. 13, 1990, at A12, available at 1990 WL 3736023); Koskela, supra note 15, at 158 (There is little question that crime victims have deserved better than they have received from our system; even critics of the victim's [sic] rights movement acknowledge that victims often have been disregarded or treated as depersonalized 'evidence' by police, prosecutors, and judges.); Jay M. Zitter, Annotation, Validity, Construction, and Application ofState Constitutional or Statutory Victims' Bill of Rights, 91 A.L.R. 5th 343 § 2(a) (2001) ([T]here is a widespread perception that the 2005] LEGACY OF A SCANDAL 521 defendant-centered approach is logical because the courts deal most directly with defendants, it has still become generally acknowledged that the system should not ignore crime victims. ^^ [Vol. 38:507 union provides some form of statutory guarantee of rights to crime victims, as does the federal government (though the quantity and quality of these rights varies by jurisdiction).^^ To understand the impact of abatement ab initio on victims of crime, it is helpful to become familiar with the policy underpinnings of the Victims' Rights Movement and the status of those policies in our legal system.	cache/inlawrev-3701.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3701.txt