The Crime Victim Legal Network is a... three-year program funded through a grant awarded to the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) by the Department of Justice / Office of Victims of Crime (OVC), to support nine sites nationally to test the enforceability of crime victims' Constitutional rights. The Crime Victim Legal Network will significantly improve the provision of legal assistance to South Carolina's crime victims and expand the accessibility of information concerning victims' rights. Our Mission: January 22, 1998 a Constitutional Amendment was passed affording rights to crime victims. The South Carolina Crime Victim Legal Network (CVLN) is committed to providing free legal representation to victims of crime in asserting their Constitutional and statutory rights in criminal and appeals courts. Collaborating with Attorney General Henry McMaster, the SC Bar, and the Charleston School of Law, we seek to enforce victim's rights in all criminal proceedings and to seek a remedy when those rights are denied, thereby setting precedent in case and statutory law. We also serve as resource center for victims' rights education. This project will support a national model to: provide legal assistance to victim's asserting their statutory and Constitutional rights set legal precedent and enforce South Carolina's Constitutional Amendment affording rights to crime victims'  The goal of the project is to provide pro bono legal representation to victims of crime in asserting their Constitutional and statutory rights by: representing victims in General Sessions and Appeals Courts proceedings litigating victims rights cases in court (brief writing, filing special actions challenging Constitutional violations (speedy trial, motions by defense to obtain confidential health/school records, motions by defense to admit "Rape Shield" evidence at trial, etc.) serving as a research and information center for victims' rights issues