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ee circuits had reached the opposite conclusion? GOVERNMENT'S RIGHT TO ASSERT ERROR DENIAL OF VICTIMS’ RIGHTS

Is it true that the Department has never used this provision in even a single case in the more than six years since the CVRA was enacted? Sincerely, JON KYL, U.S. Senator. HONORING OUR ARMED FORCES SERGEANT VORASACK T. XKAYSANA Mr. BENNET. Mr. President, it is with a heavy heart that I rise today to ho

sonable right to confer with the attorney for the Government.” At least in the posture of this case (and we do

does not extend crime victims any rights until prosecutors choose to file formal criminal charges. This led the CVRA’s Senate cosponsor, then-Senator Jon Kyl, to fire off an angry letter to the Justice Department attacking its position. In our Article, we side with the Act’s cosponsor. We believe that, pro

the district court in the Does case also rejected Government efforts to dismiss the action. The district court

does not extend crime victims any rights until prosecutors choose to file formal criminal charges. This led the CVRA's Senate cosponsor, then-Senator Jon Kyl, to fire off an angry letter to the Justice Department attacking its position. In our Article, we side with the Act's cosponsor. We believe that, pro

overning information subject to disclosure by the Government in criminal cases, nor any other federal rule or

Gen.). 30 See www.nveap.org (last visted Dec. 30, 2007). 3! For a comprehensive history of victims' efforts to pass a constitutional amendment, sce Jon Kyl, Steven J. Twist & Stephen Higgins, On the Wings of Their Angels, the Scott Campbell, Stephanie Roper, Wendy Preseon, Louarna Gillis, and Nila Lynn

dings," *° to "confer with [the] attorney for the Government n 4l in the case, and to attend court proceedin

108 A.L.R. Fed. 828 (2005). A few new issues will need to be litigated. For example, the Hughey case noted above conflicts with the views of Senator Jon Kyl, co- sponsor of the CVRA, who explained that the definition of "victim" in the CVRA is an intentionally broad definition because "all victims of DAV