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Use of Jailhouse Informants Faulted
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1990, page 3
Use Of Jailhouse Informants Faulted
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Informants.
Location:
California.
A grand jury has issued a stinging rebuke of the Los Angeles district attorney's office for failing to assure that "jailhouse informants" called as prosecution witnesses repeatedly over the last decade were telling the truth. "Very little effort was expended by the DA's office to ...
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