Panel kills victim rights amendment

After lengthy, stormy hearings that stretched over three days, the House State Affairs Committee this morning killed SJR 103 , the crime victims rights constitutional amendment that earlier had passed the Senate unanimously, 34-0. The AP reports that the committee today voted 10-5 to kill the measure, which would have needed two-thirds support in the House plus a majority vote of the people at the next general election to amend the Idaho Constitution. The only committee members who supported the measure were Reps. Monks, Crane, Palmer, Holtzclaw and Armstrong/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.