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By ROB WILHELM
Capital News Service
Richmond —■ The Virginians United Against Crime group continues to stump for the crime Victims and Witness Rights Act, a proposed constitutional amendment to Virginia’s Constitution that would ensure victims the same rights afforded criminals.
“As it is now, the scales are tipped toward the defendant, and there is a remarkable disadvantage for the prosecution,” said Warren VonSchuch, chief deputy commonwealth’s attorney for Chesterfield County, who attended VUAC’s meeting earlier this month in Richmond.
About 25 people from across the state gathered to discuss victims hghts and seek answers from an eight-person panel of state officials that included Secretary of Public Safety Jerry W. Kilgore and Del. James F. Allmand, D-Arlington, chief architect of the victims rights act.
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