This chapter may be cited as the “Mississippi Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights.” The purpose of this chapter is to ensure the fair and compassionate treatment of victims of crime, to increase the effectiveness of the criminal justice system by affording rights and considerations to the victims of crime, and to preserve and protect victims’ rights to justice and fairness in the criminal justice system.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-43-1
Short title and purpose
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Branch v. State (2004)
Most recently applied in Howard Payton v. State of Mississippi (March 2019)
Laws, 1998, ch. 577, § 1, eff from and after January 1, 1999.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.