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The Ongoing Fallout from the Jailhouse Snitch Scandal in Orange County

The Ongoing Fallout from the Jailhouse Snitch Scandal in Orange County

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...
CA: Orange County DA Drops Murder Charges to Save Face and Keep Secrets, Attorneys Allege

CA: Orange County DA Drops Murder Charges to Save Face and Keep Secrets, Attorneys Allege

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...
CA: Orange County District Attorney’s Office Exposed for Relying on “Snitch Network”

CA: Orange County District Attorney’s Office Exposed for Relying on “Snitch Network”

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...

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