Cooper v. District Court

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting distinction between protecting crime victims’ procedural rights and allowing crime victims to participate as independent parties in criminal prosecution
• noting distinction between protecting crime victims’ procedural rights and allowing crime victims to participate as independent parties in criminal prosecution
• tracing evolution of criminal law from individual pursuit of redress to societal pursuit of justice, and noting legislature’s purposeful failure to make victims parties to criminal cases with right to appeal sentencing decisions
• rejecting various arguments that victim had standing to challenge criminal sentence
• claim of psychotherapist-patient privilege waived when raised later in proceeding, rather than by “contemporaneous objection”
• “[Cjourts from other states are unanimous in holding that a crime victim does not have the right to participate as an independent party in a criminal case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).