by Sophie | Mar 20, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
It’s been a busy week since an Orange County judge found that local law enforcement and prosecutors relied on unconstitutional practices involving jailhouse informants to seek a death sentence in the case of Scott Dekraai and ruled that the Orange County...
by Sophie | Oct 2, 2014 | California, The Open File Blog
As predicted, the use of an informant network by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas’ office in Orange County, California, is continuing to cause upset following revelations that prosecutors have been withholding Brady material related to the informants in numerous...
by OpenFile | Jul 8, 2014 | California, The Open File Blog
Orange County, which has sentenced the third largest number of people to death of any county in California over the last five years, is under scrutiny following revelations of a “snitch network” used by county prosecutors in murder cases. Defendants now...