Lopez-Sanchez v. State

Concurring Opinion by

WILNER, J.,

joined by HARRELL, J.

With great reluctance, I concur in the judgment. After years of effort on the part of victims’ rights organizations and general direction in a 1994 Constitutional Amendment (Md. Decl. of Rts. Art. 47), the Legislature, through the enactment of the Victims’ Rights Act of 1997, confirmed and expanded the right of victims, in both criminal and delinquency proceedings, to be present in court, to address the court at an appropriate time, to request restitution, and, if the facts warrant, to have the court order restitution. The statutes in that…