Marine Corps Air Station New River

William Yables Jr.
Victim Witness Liaison Officer, MCAS New River
(910) 449-7159  

Victim’s Rights

• To be treated with fairness and with respect for the victim’s dignity and privacy.
• To be reasonably protected from the accused.
• To be notified of any decision to dispose of an alleged offense at court-martial, NJP or ADSEP proceedings.
• To be present at all public court-martial, NJP, and ADSEP proceedings, unless the court or legal advisor, after receiving clean and convincing eviden, determines that testimony by the victim would be materially altered if the victim heard other testimony at that proceeding.  This right does not obligate the government to pay for expenses incurred by the victim to be present.
• To be reasonably heard at any public proceeding involving release, plea, sentencing, or parole of the accused.  This right does not obligate the government to pay for expenses incurred by the victim to be present.
• To confer with the attorney for the government in the case.
• To receive information about the conviction, sentence, confinement, and release of the accused.
• To be notified of the apprehension of an accused, the initial appearance of an accused before a military judge, the release of the accused pending court-marital, and escape of the accused, and the time and location of any trial, NJP or ADSEP proceedings (including entry of guilty pleas and sentencing).
• To proceeding free from unreasonable delay.
• The right to available restitution.