One difficulty
with victim rights laws is that these laws assume that the victim desires that
the offender will be prosecuted. This is a problematic assumption in domestic
violence cases. See Cheryl Hanna, No Right To Choose: Mandated Victim
Participation in Domestic Violence Prosecutions, 109 Harvard L. Rev. 1850
(1996); George E. Wattendorf, Prosecution Issues in Domestic Assault Cases:
Trying A Case Without Victim Cooperation, 35 N. Hamp. B.J. (June 1994 at
42). Many states that require prosecutor-victim meetings explicitly reject any
victim veto in prosecution decisions, see. eg., Utah Code Ann. §
77-36-2.7 (1)(e).