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Victims of crime enter the criminal justice system involuntarily; the result of someone else's bad choices. The Arapahoe County
Sheriff's Office is committed to protecting the constitutional rights of those victims, and to making the criminal justice
system more effective throughout the various stages, as follows:
- Filing of charges
- Decision not to file charges
- Preliminary hearing
- Any bond reduction or modification hearing
- Arraignment hearing
- Motions hearing
- Subpoenas for medical history, mental health, education, or victim's compensation records
- Disposition of the complaint or charges against the person accused
- Trial
- Sentencing hearing
- Appellate review or appellate decision
- Sentence reconsideration
- Probation revocation hearing
- Filing of a complaint, summons, or warrant by probation for failure to report or because the location of a person convicted
of a crime is unknown
- Request for change of venue or transfer of probation supervision
- Request for release from probation supervision prior to the expiration of defendant's sentence
- Attack of a judgment or conviction
- Parole application hearing
- Parole, release, or discharge from imprisonment of a person convicted of a crime
- Parole revocation hearing
- Transfer to or placement of a person convicted of a crime in a non-secured facility
- Any petition by a sex offender to terminate sex offender registration
- The execution of an offender in a capital case
- Transfer, release, or escape of a person charged with or convicted of a crime from any state hospital
- In addition to the right to be informed and present, the victim also has a right to be heard at hearings on bond reduction,
disposition of the complaint, such as acceptance or a negotiated plea, and a sentencing. The victim also has a right to provide
input to the court regarding continuances.
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