Victim Allocution – a crime victim’s address to the court before sentencing, usually urging a harsher punishment

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victim allocution:
(1979)

1. A crime victim’s address to the court before sentencing, usually urging a harsher punishment. [1]

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary Deluxe Tenth Edition by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6

 

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