Add to ORKGThis Comment briefly surveys in Part I some of the data on snitch-generated wrongful convictions. In Part II, it describes in more detail the institutional relationships among snitches, police, and prosecutors that make snitch falsehoods so pervasive and difficult to discern using the traditional tools of the adversarial process. Part III concludes with a litigation suggestion for a judicial check on the use of informant witnesses, namely, a Daubert-style pre-trial reliability hearing. The Appendix in Part IV contains a sample motion requesting and justifying such a hearing
An incentivized informant scandal recently hit Orange County, California where county officials were...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and subsequent revi...
A trial court must find that the proponent of expert witness testimony has set forth adequate eviden...
This Comment briefly surveys in Part I some of the data on snitch-generated wrongful convictions. In...
Informants are witnesses who often testify in exchange for an incentive (i.e. jailhouse informant, c...
Jailhouse snitch testimony is inherently unreliable. Snitches have powerful incentives to invent inc...
Fabricated testimony by informants often plays an important role in convictions of the innocent. In ...
Jailhouse informants are thought to be one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions. The curren...
Since DNA testing became available in the late 1980’s, there have been approximately 285 DNA exonera...
The prosecutor calls an informant as a witness. Her carefully prepared questions elicit in damning d...
Courts treat self-incriminating statements by criminal informants as a significant factor favoring t...
This Comment discusses the relationship between police interrogation tactics and false confessions i...
This article argues that constitutional criminal procedure rules provide insufficient safeguards aga...
Jailhouse informants, also commonly known as snitches, are one of the leading causes of wrongful con...
This Article will first explore the problem of wrongful convictions resulting in part from false inf...
An incentivized informant scandal recently hit Orange County, California where county officials were...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and subsequent revi...
A trial court must find that the proponent of expert witness testimony has set forth adequate eviden...
This Comment briefly surveys in Part I some of the data on snitch-generated wrongful convictions. In...
Informants are witnesses who often testify in exchange for an incentive (i.e. jailhouse informant, c...
Jailhouse snitch testimony is inherently unreliable. Snitches have powerful incentives to invent inc...
Fabricated testimony by informants often plays an important role in convictions of the innocent. In ...
Jailhouse informants are thought to be one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions. The curren...
Since DNA testing became available in the late 1980’s, there have been approximately 285 DNA exonera...
The prosecutor calls an informant as a witness. Her carefully prepared questions elicit in damning d...
Courts treat self-incriminating statements by criminal informants as a significant factor favoring t...
This Comment discusses the relationship between police interrogation tactics and false confessions i...
This article argues that constitutional criminal procedure rules provide insufficient safeguards aga...
Jailhouse informants, also commonly known as snitches, are one of the leading causes of wrongful con...
This Article will first explore the problem of wrongful convictions resulting in part from false inf...
An incentivized informant scandal recently hit Orange County, California where county officials were...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and subsequent revi...
A trial court must find that the proponent of expert witness testimony has set forth adequate eviden...