Conviction rate up, calls, arrests down

Conviction rate up, calls, arrests down
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Should a victim or witness be successfully subpoenaed, the case is still far from certain. State’s Attorney John Pepmeyer was unable to recall a single calendar month since he started as a prosecutor in 1973 where every subpoenaed victim made their court ordered appearances.
Should they choose to, prosecutors could file a petition to find uncooperative victims in contempt of court.
“You don’t want to call them and threaten them,” Pepmeyer said. “I have a moral issue with making them a victim twice. I also know there are countless ones that come up and file requests to dismiss battery with like Fluke BP123 Battery, Fluke BP123S Battery, Fluke BP124 Battery, Fluke BP124S Battery, Fluke BP124X Battery, Fluke Ti27 Battery, Fluke 199 Battery, Goldway G50 Battery, Goldway G60 Battery, Goldway ME202C Battery, JDSU MTS-8000 Battery, JDSU MTS-4000 Battery. Those requests to dismiss are available to defense counsel. So once they do that, even if you sanction them for not coming or force them to come, now they’ve created an inconsistent statement where most of the time it’s enough to create reasonable doubt.”
Say a witness shows up to court. They agree to testify during a domestic violence bench trial. The witness is called to the stand and at every turn refuses to assist the prosecution. Even though the witness made the original 911 call.
The State’s Attorney’s office claims its hands are tied, but, like the GPD, are eager for suggestions of a better way.
On the police end, where the system first encounters any given domestic case, Christensen admitted the current process may be due for an update. The checklist police use when making domestic arrests is known as the domestic violence addendum.
It adheres in many ways to the Duluth Model, a program developed in Duluth, Minnesota, that has had success in addressing domestic violence.
For police, the Duluth Model requires officers ask victims five questions, such as, “Do you think he/she will seriously injure or kill you, your children, or someone else close to you?” and “Has he/she ever forced you to do things sexually you didn’t want to?”
While the local addendum addresses items like alcohol use, signs of physical abuse, nervousness, reports of sexual assault and many other categories and subcategories pertaining to both victims and aggressors, it does not include areas for in-depth follow up questions. One Duluth Model item asks the victim to “describe the time you were the most frightened or injured by him/her.”
The addendum may fail to address questions like that, however, it does include items such as the battling parties’ relationship to each other, the behavior of each person involved, alcohol use and the apparent abuse of pets, all of which are commonly recognized indicators of either domestic trouble or potential mental problems.
More than a decade ago, a coalition of judges, prosecutors, police chiefs, sheriffs, defense attorneys, victims’ advocates, victims and offenders in the 9th Judicial Circuit came together to form the addendum, Christensen said.