EVERYONE PLEA BARGAINS EXCEPT THE POOR VICTIM

WE TOUCHED ON PLEA BARGAINING IN A PREVIOUS POST.  IN MY BOOK, I HAVE REPRINTED A LETTER  LISA WROTE TO THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE PROTESTING THE PLEA BARGAINING IN HER CASE.  THE TWO MOST VIOLENT EPISODES SHE SUFFERED WERE PLEA BARGAINED AWAY.  SHE STATES THAT HAD SHE KNOWN  THAT THE CHARGES OF THE FIRST INCIDENT WOULD BE DROPPED, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO ENDURE THE SECOND.  BOTH EPISODES WERE VIOLENT, BLOODY, AND WERE MORE ATTEMPTED MURDER.  WITH THESE CHARGES DROPPED, THE PEOPLE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS WOULD NOT KNOW HOW VIOLENT HE WAS AND PUT HIM ON THE WORK RELEASE PROGRAM HE WAS ON WHEN HE MURDERED HER.  HE PROBABLY DIDN'T LOOK  SO BAD WITHOUT THOSE VIOLENT CHARGES.

SO, THE PROSECUTOR, DEFENSE ATTORNEY,AND CRIMINAL WERE ALL TOGETHER IN THE DROPPING OF CHARGES.  WHERE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM  WERE LISA'S RIGHTS? EVEN AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER MATHENEY'S PENDING  DEATH SENTENCE, AND YEARS OF CHALLENGES AND HEARINGS IN HIS BEHALF, I CONTACTED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE TO ASK AT WHAT POINT THE DENIAL OF THE VICTIM'S RIGHTS BECOMES IMMORAL..  JUSTICE AS A REALITY IS NOT BLIND.  IT'S ONE SIDED FOR THE CRIMINAL.  LEARN AND PROTECT YOURSELF.
MILLIE