A proposal to ensure crime victims are not forced to deliver impact statements to an empty courtroom chair advanced unanimously from a Senate committee Tuesday, Jan. 13 following emotional testimony ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarah Zent (left) and her three children — Carter, Ashton and Aubree — were killed in Fort Wayne in 2021 and are the inspiration ...

Every time Jessi Brown speaks at a victim impact panel, the wounds made that night in 2006 are opened again. Two of her best friends were killed when the car driven by her boyfriend slammed into the ...

Some drunken drivers are required to attend panels where they hear from victims of drunken driving and their families. But the panels often fail to keep offenders from driving drunk again, and may ...

An Arizona trial court judge allowed this innovative approach to presenting a victim impact statement, which seems like a useful step toward justice. Last week, the road-rage killer of an Arizona man ...

Sarah Zent (left) and her three children — Carter, Ashton and Aubree — were killed in Fort Wayne in 2021 and are the inspiration for a bill moving through the Indiana Legislature that would largely ...