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Article • December 1, 2024 • from CLN December, 2024
Ninth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief to California Prisoner on Napue Claim Because Prosecution Failed to Correct Informant’s False Testimony That He Did Not Receive Any Benefit In Exchange for His Testimony by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the U.S. District …
The Prosecutor and the Snitch Ring by Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith by Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith “Cold Justice” star Kelly Siegler relied on jailhouse informants to win convictions despite reasons to doubt their credibility. Secrets and Liars What Happened When a Star Prosecutor Was Accused of Running a Jailhouse …
Article • January 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2024
Filed under: Informants, FBI
FBI Lost Count of Its Snitches at Capitol on January 6, 2021 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) had so many snitches at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that the agency lost track of the number. Steven D’Antouno, formerly in charge of the …
Oregon Supreme Court Clarifies Test to Determine When Person Becomes Agent of the State and Rules Jailhouse Snitch Was Agent, Requiring Suppression of Defendant’s Statements by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Supreme Court of Oregon upheld a Court of Appeals decision ordering a new trial for a defendant …
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
Filed under: Informants, FBI
The Pariah by Murtaza Hussain He Declined the FBI’s Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined. by Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept Aswad Khan didn’t understandwhypeople were congratulating him. On a February morning in 2017, rolling out of bed at his home in an upper-middle class area of …
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
DOJ: Unlawful Snitching Program Run by the Orange County, California, DA’s Office and Sheriff’s Department Compromised Unknown Number of Convictions by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a bombshell report on October 13, 2022, revealing that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office …
Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022
Filed under: Informants
Government Snitches Rake in Millions as Their Testimony Is the Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions by Jacob Barrett, Dale Chappell by Jacob Barrett and Dale Chappell The general public’s familiarity with the government’s use of informants in criminal proceedings is largely confined to movies and TV documentaries. Yet, every year, …
Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022
Fifth Circuit: Officer’s Testimony About CI’s Controlled Buy That He Did Not Personally Witness Violates Confrontation Clause by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a Texas defendant’s drug conviction, concluding that the Government flouted his right to confront witnesses against him, …
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Trial Court Did Not Abuse Discretion by Granting Rule 508 Motion to Dismiss Capital Murder Charge Where State Refused to Disclose Identity of Confidential Informant by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas reversed a judgment of the Court of …
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Snitch Visas: A Pipe Dream by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Nervin Coronado was charged in 2009 with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme, he faced more than just prison time. He faced deportation because he immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never became …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN May, 2021
New Jersey Supreme Court Announces Adoption of Framework for Evaluating Discovery Motions Challenging Warrant Affidavits Based on Unidentified Confidential Informants by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of New Jersey announced its adoption of the framework articulated by the California Supreme Court in People v. Luttenberger, 784 P.2d …
Article • November 16, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Filed under: Informants
Why Juries Need Expert Help Assessing Jailhouse Informants by Alexandra Natapoff Informants are highly motivated to lie. But jurors don’t always have the information or skills to discern the truth. by Alexandra Natapoff, The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news site In February 2010, I was asked to testify as an expert …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Informants
Fifth Circuit: Confrontation Clause Violated When Officer’s Testimony Relates Incriminating Information Received From Non-Testifying Informant by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that when a testifying officer relates the statement of a non-testifying confidential informant that facially incriminates a defendant, it …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Government Snitches: Incentivized Witnesses Are the Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Every year, innocent people go to prison, or even death row, because of government informants who lie to get a good deal in their own criminal case. The problem, studies show, is the …
Norfolk Four v. State of Virginia, VA, Senate Bill 772, Wrongful Conviction, 2019 1/31/2019 Virginia-2018-SB772-Chaptered CHAPTER 503 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 18.2 of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01 a section numbered 8.01-195.13 and for the relief of Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse …
Article • January 19, 2019 • from CLN February, 2019
Illinois Law on Informants Designed to Avoid Wrongful Convictions by Betty Nelander by Betty Nelander Anew Illinois law aims to bring transparency to the use of jailhouse snitches, which are the main cause of wrongful convictions nationwide and the cause of at least 17 wrongful convictions in that state alone. …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Second Circuit Announces Prisoners Have First Amendment Right Not to Snitch or Provide False Information to Prison Officials by Richard Resch by Richard Resch In its opinion issued on May 9, 2018, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a prisoner has a First Amendment right …
Article • September 10, 2018
$1.275 million settlement awarded to sheriff whistleblower who testified in federal obstruction case by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Tara Jan Adams was an exceptional deputy in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department ("LASD"). Striving for a patrol officer’s slot, she began her career in the records division, where it …
Brief • December 22, 2017
Snodgrass v. Messer, Amici Curiae, 2017 No. 17-635 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ———— KEVIN SNODGRASS, JR., Petitioner, v. S.L. MESSER; M.L. COUNTS; C. BISHOP; E.R. BARKSDALE; J. BENTLEY; JOE FANIN; TORI RAIFORD; GARRY A. ADAMS; HAROLD CLARK, Respondents. ———— On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari …
Article • November 16, 2017
State Bar of Texas Pursuing Disciplinary Action against Prosecutor Who Lied about Deals with Jailhouse Informants in Capital Case by Richard Resch by Richard Resch In September 25, 2017, the State Bar of Texas filed a disciplinary action against former Harris County Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth A. Exley. She is …
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