Right to Be Heard

Alexis explains: "opinion doesn't mean they get the last say the district attorney in the state of colorado is the entity that charges someone with a domestic violence charge but under the bra the victims have the right to be heard they don't have the right to be listened to necessarily so for example if someone gets charged with a harassment case the lowest level domestic violence charge that we typically see where they were texting too much and the victim in the case says i want this person to go to prison they have the right to be heard on that but the da is not going to listen to that"

Alexis explains: "the victims have the right to be heard they don't have the right to be listened to necessarily"

Alexis explains: "the vra stands for victims rights act it's a colorado constitutional amendment that says victims have rights in domestic violence cases just as much as defendants have rights victims have protected rights too now it's not the same type of rights and i want to go through what those rights are but in essence what it means is if someone is an alleged victim in a case they have the right to be heard they have the right to know what's happening in the case and they have the right to be kept informed throughout the progress of the case"