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OH: Prosecutorial Misconduct and Informant Testimony Raise Too Much Doubt About Ohio’s Planned Execution of William Montgomery

OH: Prosecutorial Misconduct and Informant Testimony Raise Too Much Doubt About Ohio’s Planned Execution of William Montgomery

by Bert | Mar 15, 2018 | Ohio

The State of Ohio plans to execute William T. Montgomery on April 11, 2018. With substantive doubts about his guilt hanging over the case, Montgomery is seeking executive clemency from Governor John Kasich. The application for clemency provides a helpful overview of...
Federal Courts Should Reduce Use of Informants, Not Seek Greater Secrecy Around Their Use

Federal Courts Should Reduce Use of Informants, Not Seek Greater Secrecy Around Their Use

by Bert | Jul 27, 2017 | National

The Judicial Conference—a national body that makes policy for the federal court system—has expressed concerns about the security of informants in the federal system. Evidently, around 700 cooperating witnesses and jailhouse informants (sometimes referred to as...
MA: Plymouth County DA Exemplifies Prosecutorial Authoritarianism

MA: Plymouth County DA Exemplifies Prosecutorial Authoritarianism

by Bert | Jun 16, 2017 | Massachusetts

Two major crime lab scandals have engulfed Massachusetts law enforcement in recent years. The massive negative impact that Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak have had on the criminal justice system deservedly soaks up a great deal of media attention, but they are far from...
IL: Perjury by Snitches Leads to Overturning of Murder Conviction

IL: Perjury by Snitches Leads to Overturning of Murder Conviction

by Alec | Sep 15, 2015 | Illinois

In another of the myriad recent cases to shed light on the corruption surrounding the use of snitch/informant testimony, a conviction for a 2008 murder in Champaign County has been overturned based on the lies two informants told on the stand denying they had received...
OR: Prosecutors Hid Record of Informant Who Committed Crimes While Employed by Police

OR: Prosecutors Hid Record of Informant Who Committed Crimes While Employed by Police

by Alec | Sep 10, 2015 | Oregon, The Open File Blog

One of the most egregious and long-standing systems of prosecutorial misconduct that we have ever followed is the still unfolding story of the illegal snitch network operated out of the Orange County, California District Attorney’s and Sheriff’s offices....

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