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On 3/15/2024 10:14 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.

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