Opinion by JUDGE LIPINSKY.
¶ 1 Victim impact testimony packs a punch at a criminal trial. Trial courts may understandably be inclined to give the victim and the victim's family the catharsis of describing the effect on them of the crime with which the defendant is charged. But the admissibility of such evidence can deprive the defendant of...
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