Part Thirty: What Daniela Read

And here is the thing I did not know existed until the April, and which is the single best fact in this entire account, and which I now tell every person who asks me about any of it.

A victim has a constitutional right in this state to be heard at sentencing.

It is in the Arizona Victims’ Bill of Rights.

It is not a courtesy, it is not in the prosecutor’s gift, and it does not depend on anybody calling you as a witness.