Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-14 (Thursday) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:32:07 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:32:06 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="672861d0b75ff360b253a155ba7eac89"; logging-data="3117367"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wOoswXc9vNfLG2CJw7L7p" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:r7Tg+96VtZlda0c1q5hpi9TeETA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2908 On 3/15/2024 10:14 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: >> "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>> Ubiquitous wrote: > >>>>> THIS IS THE MOST HORRIFIC SCHOOL FIGHT I'VE SEEN YET: A Missouri >>>>> teenager was brutally beaten by a fellow student near their high >>>>> school. This type of violence among young students cannot keep >>>>> happening. > >>>> And while the girl who did it was arrested, she was only charged with >>>> assault, not the attempted murder she should be facing. > >>> Is there a legal theory in which a victim can pursue a civil rights >>> violation if police or the prosecution refuse to perform their duties to >>> gather evidence and to arrest and charge? > >> I don't know about civil rights violations but there is such a thing as >> a writ of mandamus, which is applied for directly at the appellate >> level, and which requests the court to issue a writ ordering the lower >> court or some other government official to do their job. > > But the crime victim is the complaining witness only, not one of the > adversarial parties to the criminal case. He lacks standing to file such > an appeal. > > On Rumpole of the Bailey, and a few other procedurals, I'd heard of the > British concept of a private prosecution. The crime victim (or estate) > can hire a Q.C. to file charges and pursue a case if the Crown > prosecution service won't do an adequate job or won't file charges. > > That's not something we inherited. That is one of the functions of US civil cases. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.