Victim Assistance
Help, hope, and healing
One jurisdiction’s creative strategies for fulfilling prosecutors’ duty to help crime victims
Leveling the playing field
How the Code of Criminal Procedure helps child victims combat their fear of testifying in front of the defendant
By all accounts, 17-year-old Joseph Lee Belt was a quiet, hard-working, well-mannered young man. He was polite to his neighbors and helped his grandmother, with whom he lived in Bailey. He held a job, raised animals for show, and never used foul language. But Joey, as his family called him, had his sinister side too, and it surfaced on the afternoon of October 21, 1999.
Leveling the playing field
How the Code of Criminal Procedure helps child victims combat their fear of testifying in front of the defendant
By all accounts, 17-year-old Joseph Lee Belt was a quiet, hard-working, well-mannered young man. He was polite to his neighbors and helped his grandmother, with whom he lived in Bailey. He held a job, raised animals for show, and never used foul language. But Joey, as his family called him, had his sinister side too, and it surfaced on the afternoon of October 21, 1999.
