Improving Prosecution of Sexual Assault Cases
Amy Knight Burns, Stanford Law Review & The Stanford Law Review
Abstract
In December 2013, an editorial appeared in the Missoulian, a Montana-based newspaper, criticizing Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg for a statement about his office’s handling of rape prosecutions: that attorneys in his office could review and work on those cases “whenever ‘they have spare time.’” Van Valkenburg published a defiant response. This exchange was part […]