Sentences with phrase «jailhouse informants»

Kentucky must enact legislation that requires corroboration of jailhouse informants and creates a process for criminal courts to determine the reliability of such statements prior to allowing this type of evidence before a jury.

These benefits can go to accomplices, reluctant witnesses, or the most insidious type of witness — jailhouse informants like Carter who claim to hear confessions and whose testimony usually can not be verified.

The case against Mr. Fogle itself was never a strong one — it was based entirely upon the testimony of so - called jailhouse informants, including a man himself suspected of the crime.

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Materials are classified by the primary causes of wrongful conviction: forensics / DNA, eyewitness identification, false confessions, jailhouse informants, police or prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective representation.

Orange County public defender Scott Sanders (right) leveled explosive allegations that prosecutors maintained a secret database and planted jailhouse informants next to high - value defendants.

Sanders describes a pattern in which sheriff's deputies train jailhouse informants on what they want and how to document it — but either don't create or don't turn over records of that training.

According to Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, jailhouse informants have a very strong incentive to snitch: They're typically rewarded with leniency, perks at the jail or even cash.

At trial, the state relied on the testimony of a jailhouse informant who claimed that Clark confessed to the crime.

The injustice that occurred in this case is partially attributed to the false and manufactured statement by a jailhouse informant who was incentivized by law - enforcement officials.

Shortly after Hardin and Clark's convictions, a letter surfaced revealing that the jailhouse informant attempted to solicit another inmate to fabricate testimony against Hardin and Clark to receive a reduced sentence.

Shortly after the verdict, Hardin and Clark moved for a new trial based on this letter proving that the jailhouse informant committed perjury.