NCVLI

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Protecting Victims from Re-Victimization: Securing Testimonial Accommodations

Date: February 15 2012, 12:00pm - 1:15pm Location: Webinar

Access to justice should not require any victim to suffer needless additional trauma.  However, requiring a victim to testify in front of the accused can be severely traumatic for some victims.  You can help shield victims who would experience trauma by securing the use of alternate means of testifying before the accused.  In this training, we will discuss the standard articulated by the Supreme Court in Maryland v. Craig for allowing alternate testimony in the form of closed circuit television, and provide a general overview of the law so that you may be better positioned to seek testimonial protections for victims. 

This training will focus on the use of testimonial accommodations not just for child-victims, but for adult victims as well, with an emphasis on closed-circuit television and similar forms of technology. 

This training will be co-presented by staff of NCVLI’s Safeguarding Child-Victims’ Rights Initiative and Responding to Violence Against Women Project, attorneys Rebecca Khalil, Amy Liu, and Ali Wilkinson.

 

This training is open exclusively to members of the National Alliance of Victims’ Rights Attorneys & Advocates (NAVRA) registered with the new website.  If you are not yet a registered NAVRA member, you can join for free by clicking here.

Note: If you are trying to access the registration site from a federal government computer, you may experience technical difficulties.  If you are unable to register, please contact your Information Technology support staff for assistance.

After registering, all registrants will be prompted to download webinar software from GoToWebinar.  

 

This presentation was produced by the National Crime Victim Law Institute under Grants No. 2010-VF-GX-K004, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, and  2009-SC-B9-0114, awarded by the Bureau of Justice Asstance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this presentation are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.