How has the Attorney General defined victims' rights under Proposition 8?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Brosnahan v. Brown, 186 Cal.Rptr. 30, 32 Cal.3d 236, 651 P.2d 274 (Cal. 1982):

[32 Cal.3d 273] In an effort to find a formula which covers all the varied provisions of Proposition 8, the Attorney General is forced to propose a single subject that is broader than the titles presented to the voters. Apparently, he has abandoned the proponents' earlier argument in Brosnahan v. Eu, supra, 31 Cal.3d 1, 181 Cal.Rptr. 100, 641 P.2d 200, that the single subject of this initiative is "public safety." He now claims that victims' rights must be interpreted more broadly to include "potential" as well as actual victims of crime. Thus, he contends that the entire proposition falls within a single subject which he defines as "reform of the criminal justice system as it relates to the actual and potential victims of crime."

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