Sentences with phrase «jailhouse snitches»

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.

Perhaps the fact that 45 % of wrongful convictions in capital cases are based on jailhouse snitches has something to do with it.

With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts.

Those witnesses were not liars or jailhouse snitches but ordinary people utterly convinced that their memories were accurate.

Shea Whigham steals scenes as a lowdown jailhouse snitch.

That's just awkward, unless you're really looking to cultivate that jailhouse snitch culture.

Second, a jailhouse snitch lied about George being the robber in return for favorable treatment in his (the snitch) case.

It proved a convincing combination to the jury, along with vague statements from eyewitnesses and a jailhouse snitch.

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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.

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