A Victim Impact Statement (VIS) helps survivors of sexual grooming express how the abuse affected them emotionally, physically, and financially. It can provide emotional healing and influence ...

Senate Bill 9 would require defendants to be present during victim impact statements except in limited circumstances, ...

During a July 28 appearance on Good Morning America, Alivea Goncalves reflected on the impact statement that she made at Bryan Kohberger's sentencing for the 2022 murder of her sister Kaylee Goncalves ...

JONEDBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — First Judicial Criminal Court Judge Stacy Street took particular note of a victim impact ...

Dante Irvin was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole, since he was a minor at ...

Sarah Zent (left) and her three children — Carter, Ashton and Aubree — were killed in Fort Wayne in 2021 and are the inspiration for a bill moving through the Indiana Legislature that would largely ...

A provincial court judge expressed displeasure at having to delay part of the sentencing hearing in an impaired driving ...

SENTENCE IMPOSED. KATE. WELL, TEN OF RACHEL MORAN’S FAMILY MEMBERS ADDRESSED THE COURT HERE TODAY. VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS DELIVERED BY HER MOM, BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND FOUR OF HER FIVE CHILDREN, ...

Officer Gabriel Torres' wife Jasmine gave an emotional 18-minute victim impact statement.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is opposing a prosecution request to allow his former assistant -- who testified under the pseudonym "Mia" -- to deliver a victim impact statement at his sentencing hearing on ...