"The Courtroom is the focal point of the entire criminal justice system * * * Particularly for the victim, the judge is the personification of justice." (President's Task Force Report on Victims of Crime [Dec., 1983], p 73.)
Certainly the Trial Judge should ideally be perceived as "the personification of justice" by everyone involved in the system, including the defendant. More particularly, however, victims' rights...
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