Victims' Families Deserve a Speedy Trial Too. Not Just the Perpetrators.

My parents and my sister were murdered. That was six and a half years ago.

We still have not been to trial.

Not because the case is weak. Not because justice is slow. Because the system has no mechanism to protect families like mine from being retraumatized over and over again by endless delays, missed deadlines, and defense tactics that no one is accountable for.

While the accused has a constitutional right to a speedy trial, the families of the people they killed have nothing. No protections. No oversight. No voice in the process that is supposed to deliver justice for their loved ones.

That is not justice. That is not okay. And it has to change.

What Needs to Change

Families of homicide victims deserve real, enforceable protections in the court system. That means:

Strict limits on trial delays that cannot be waived indefinitely by defense teams with no accountability.

Mandatory oversight of cases where delays have exceeded a reasonable timeline.

A formal voice for victims' families in proceedings that directly affect their ability to heal and move forward.

Real consequences for legal teams that use delay tactics to avoid trial at the expense of grieving families.

The Sixth Amendment protects the accused. It is time for the law to equally protect the families of those who cannot speak for themselves anymore.

This Is Personal

I am not an attorney. I am not a politician. I am a daughter, a sister, and a mother who has spent six and a half years watching the system fail my family over and over again with no end in sight.

I built After the Unthinkable because I needed somewhere to put this. A place to turn pain into purpose. A place to help others who are surviving the unsurvivable while also fighting for the changes that should have existed long before my family needed them.

This page exists because silence is not an option anymore.

If you have lived through something similar, I want to hear from you. If you are an organization, an attorney, a legislator, or an advocate who believes families of victims deserve better, I want to connect with you.

We cannot change what happened. But we can change what happens next.

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