Acknowledging victim impact statements at sentencing

Thoughts on how best to do this? Client is being sentenced next week and the family wrote a very powerful and gracious (forgiving, wanting justice but not vengeance type letter) victim impact statement. My client has done a good job of behaving while in jail and quite frankly this whole thing was very unintentional despite it being a bad act.

I want to acknowledge the statements points while not throwing my client under the bus but this is a very sympathetic case and although I was able to get the most serious charges dismissed, I’m worried about consecutive sentences that could top client at over 30 years. Thoughts?

Posted Jan 31, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

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