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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
