It’s a little known irony that crime victims often have to fight for the “right” merely to be considered victims in the eyes of the court.
It’s different for criminals. When someone commits a crime, their rights expand exponentially. The worse the crime, the more legal protection the offender receives. Foremost among the special rights granted only to offenders is the right to relentlessly appeal one’s case, a right that swells to parodic dimensions, subsidized in nearly every case by the taxpayers. If the victim or their survivors are taxpayers, they pay for it, too. ...