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Jailhouse Informants

Author : Jeffrey S. Neuschatz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479803308
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Jailhouse Informants written by Jeffrey S. Neuschatz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of the proposed book is to offer a broad audience a greater understanding of JI testimony, historically, legally, and psychologically. First, the book will provide clear examples of the use of JI testimony in a variety of cases, and present the use of JI testimony in historical perspective. The latter will include data on how often JI testimony is used and in what kinds of cases, demographics of JIs, outcomes, and outcomes overturned. Next, we will review the legal status of JI testimony. Third, we will review the vast amount of psychological research pertinent to JI testimony--there will be chapters on confessions, lying and lie detection, expert testimony, and perceptions of JI testimony. Finally, we will integrate our historical, legal, and psychological coverage by offering recommendations for dealing with JI testimony in court"--

Jailhouse Informants

Author : Jeffrey S. Neuschatz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479803316
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Snitching

Author : Alexandra Natapoff
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479807710
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Snitching written by Alexandra Natapoff and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the secretive, inaccurate, and often violent ways that the American criminal system really works Curtis Flowers spent twenty-three years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. Rachel Hoffman was murdered at age twenty-three while working for Florida police. Such tragedies are consequences of snitching. Although it is nearly invisible to the public, the massive informant market shapes the American legal system in risky and sometimes shocking ways. Police rely on criminal suspects to obtain warrants, to perform surveillance, and to justify arrests. Prosecutors negotiate with defendants for information and cooperation, offering to drop charges or lighten sentences in exchange. In this book, Alexandra Natapoff provides a comprehensive analysis of this powerful and problematic practice. She shows how informant deals generate unreliable evidence, allow serious criminals to escape punishment, endanger the innocent, and exacerbate distrust between police and poor communities of color. First published over ten years ago, Snitching has become known as the “informant bible,” a leading text for advocates, attorneys, journalists, and scholars. This influential book has helped free the innocent, it has fueled reform at the state and federal level, and it is frequently featured in high-profile media coverage of snitching debacles. This updated edition contains a decade worth of new stories, new data, new legislation and legal developments, much of it generated by the book itself and by Natapoff’s own work. In clear, accessible language, the book exposes the social destruction that snitching can cause in heavily-policed Black neighborhoods, and how using criminal informants renders our entire penal process more secretive and less fair. By delving into the secretive world of criminal informants, Snitching reveals deep and often disturbing truths about the way American justice really works.

Believing a Snitch

Author : Netta Schroer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Believing a Snitch written by Netta Schroer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: False testimony from jailhouse informants has become a significant contributor to wrongful convictions (Center for Wrongful Convictions, 2004; Innocence Project, 2009). The present study investigated how participants' verdicts and perceptions of an informant were influenced by the incentive the informant received (none, small, or large), the informant's criminal history (committed a minor crime or major crime), and consistency of the informant's testimony with the facts of the case (consistent or inconsistent). Three hundred mock jurors recruited by a trial research firm and from college psychology courses were randomly assigned to one of 12 conditions. After reading case facts, excerpts from the testimony of a jailhouse informant, excerpts from the testimony of an eyewitness, and closing arguments from the prosecution and defense, participants responded to a series of questions regarding three general areas: a) verdict, b) perceptions of the informant, c) perceptions of the eyewitness. Consistent with hypotheses, participants rendered more guilty verdicts when the informant's testimony was consistent with the facts of the case than when it contained inaccuracies. Inconsistent with predictions though, mock jurors' verdicts did not differ based on incentive or criminal history. Nevertheless, the informant was rated more believable, more interested in serving justice, more interested in seeking the truth, and less interested in serving his own interests when he received no incentive than when an incentive was received. He also was rated as more believable, more interested in serving justice, and was considered a better person when he committed a minor crime rather than a major crime. Further, the informant was judged as more believable (and more favorable overall) when the details he provided were consistent instead of inconsistent with the facts of the case. It appears that people were swayed by informants and rendered guilty verdicts even when there were reasons to question the reliability of the informant and his testimony. Consistent with predictions, the eyewitness was rated as more believable and more favorable than the informant. Implications for policy changes are discussed.

Ratting

Author : Robert M. Bloom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313013853
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ratting written by Robert M. Bloom and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing informants in a variety of contexts provides a broader picture of them, and highlights the potential pitfalls associated with their use within our criminal justice system. Police depend on insiders to prosecute the perpetrators of many of the so-called victimless crimes like drug dealing, money laundering and political corruption. As victimless crimes have grown, so has the use of informants. Providing insights into law enforcement techniques as well as the Court's response to them, Bloom illuminates the pernicious legal ramifications that can result from the justice system's relationship to and use of informers. Law professors, criminologists, and law enforcement scholars will find Bloom's account of this much used and abused but under-reported aspect of America's law enforcement efforts both edifying and sobering. There are different kinds of informants. Some are used to infiltrate and destroy organized crime operations, and others, such as Linda Tripp, are used to investigate government officials. Informants are motivated by a variety of reasons, including financial gain, political power, elimination of competition, and avoiding criminal punishment. Some are even imaginary, fabricated by police to justify their activity. Bloom discusses each type of informer, grounding his commentary in real cases, some well known, others obscure. He then concludes by suggesting how potential and real abuses of the informant system can be curbed.

Prisons Informants

Author : Paul Genua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Prisons Informants written by Paul Genua and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By definition, a jailhouse informant is an inmate, usually awaiting trial or sentencing, who claims to have been the recipient of an admission made by another prisoner awaiting trial, and who agrees to testify against that prisoner in a court of law, usually in exchange for some benefit. Inquiries have uncovered the reality that the use of jailhouse informants by Crown counsel is problematic and fraught with danger.

Jailhouse Informants

Author : Ted Rohrlich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Jailhouse Informants written by Ted Rohrlich and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Street Legal

Author : Ken Wallentine
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318225
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Street Legal written by Ken Wallentine and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 396-page book provides specific guidance on pre-trial criminal procedure of all sorts, and explains in understandable terms what you can do and what you can't do under 4th Amendment search and seizure law. From traffic checkpoints and forceful felony arrest, from Miranda warnings to inmate and cell searches, it's all covered in this concise reference. In addition, numerous charts and guides are included throughout the book to make this as practical a guide as possible.

Confidential Informant

Author : John Madinger
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420048704
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Confidential Informant written by John Madinger and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-10-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He baffled and eluded law enforcement officers for nearly two decades. In the end, however, it wasn't the painstaking forensic analysis of hundreds of pieces of crime scene evidence that led to the capture of the Unabomber-but the lucky tip of an informant. Truth of the matter is, for all their sophistication and hi-tech science, crime-fighting techniques such as fingerprint and DNA analysis are a factor in less than one percent of all criminal cases. In the overwhelming number of crimes, informants have provided the necessary ammunition needed to bring criminals to justice, from Genovese to Gotti and Capone to Dillinger. Confidential Informant: Understanding Law Enforcement's Most Valuable Tool explores the covert and clandestine world of informants-revealing the secrets of how to find them and make the most out of them, while at the same time, avoiding the pitfalls of dealing with them. Using case studies in which informants played key roles in solving crimes, the book examines all aspects of informant development and management, from the motivation of the informant to the legal problems that accompany the use of informants in criminal cases. Written by John Madinger, a former narcotics agent, supervisor and administrator, and currently a Senior Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service, Confidential Informant: Understanding Law Enforcement's Most Valuable Tool examines the emotional and behavioral characteristics of the informant, as well as the psychology of trust and betrayal. The book also illustrates techniques for improving interviewing and communication skills when dealing with informants, and provides invaluable forms that can be used in connection with these vital sources of information.

Convicting the Innocent

Author : Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674066111
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Convicting the Innocent written by Brandon L. Garrett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 20, 1984, Earl WashingtonÑdefended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty caseÑwas found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett's investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.

Advances in Psychology and Law

Author : Monica K. Miller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030546780
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Psychology and Law written by Monica K. Miller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of up-to-date review articles on topics relevant to psychology and law, and will be of current interest to the field. These topics are currently attracting a great deal of research and public policy attention in the U.S. and elsewhere and will be relevant to researchers, clinical practitioners, and policy makers. Topics include: attitudes toward police (Cole et al.), accuracy of memory for child sexual abuse (Goldfarb et al.), the use of interpreters in investigations (Goodman-Delahunty et al.), adjustment of former prisoners post-exoneration (Kirshenbaum et al.), psychological implications for gun policy (Pirelli et al.), ability to match people with images from ID cards and video (Rumschik et al.), judicial instructions on eyewitness evidence (Skalon et al.), social science of the death penalty (West et al.), and informant testimony (Wetmore et al.).

The Innocent Man

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307576019
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Innocent Man written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you. Don’t miss Framed, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, co-authored with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey.

Hot Topics in the Legal Profession - 2017

Author : Steven Alan Childress
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610273834
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Hot Topics in the Legal Profession - 2017 written by Steven Alan Childress and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wrongfully Convicted

Author : Kent Roach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668023687
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Wrongfully Convicted written by Kent Roach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top legal scholar explains Canada’s national tragedy of wrongful convictions, how anyone could be caught up in them, and what we can do to safeguard justice. Canada’s legal system has a serious problem: a significant but unknown number of people have been convicted for crimes they didn’t commit. There are famous cases of wrongful convictions, such as David Milgaard and Donald Marshall Jr., where the system convicted the wrong person for murder. But there are lesser-known cases: people who feel they have no option but to plead guilty, and people convicted of crimes that were imagined by experts or the police that never, in fact, happened. Kent Roach, cofounder of the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions, award-winning author, and law professor, has dedicated his illustrious career to documenting flaws in our justice system. His work reveals that the burden of wrongful convictions falls disproportionately on the disadvantaged, including Indigenous and racialized people, those with cognitive issues, single mothers, and the poor. Wrongfully Convicted raises awareness about wrongful convictions at a time when DNA exonerations are less frequent and the memories of most famous wrongful convictions are fading. Roach makes a compelling case for change that governments have so far lacked the courage to make. They include better legislative regulation of police and forensic experts and the creation of a permanent and independent federal commission both to investigate wrongful convictions and their multiple causes. Roach’s research and vast knowledge point to systemic failings in our legal system. But he also outlines vital changes that can better prevent and correct wrongful convictions. Until we do, many of the wrongfully convicted are still waiting for the promise of justice. It is an issue that affects all Canadians.

The Law of the Police

Author : Rachel Harmon
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1454891130
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Law of the Police written by Rachel Harmon and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book provides materials and analysis for law school classes on policing and the law. It offers a resource for students and others seeking to understand and evaluate how American law governs police interactions with the public. The book provides primary materials, including cases, statutes, and departmental policies, and commentary and questions designed to help readers explore policing practices; the law that governs them; and the law’s consequences for the costs, benefits, fairness, and accountability of policing. Among other issues, the notes and questions encourage readers to consider the form and content of the law; how it might change; who is making it; and how the law affects policing. Part I introduces local policing—its history, its goals, and its problems; Part II considers the law that regulates criminal investigations; Part III addresses the law that governs street policing; and Part IV looks at policing’s legal remedies and reforms. Professors and students will benefit from: Chapters and notes designed to allow flexibility—allow professors to assign materials selectively according to the needs of the course. As a result, the casebook can serve as materials for a range of lecture and discussion-based courses on the law regulating police conduct; on legal remedies and reforms for problems in policing; or on more specific topics, such as the use of force or constitutional rules governing police conduct. Descriptions of controversial policing encounters and links to and discussion of videos of such incidents—help students practice applying the law, consider its policy implications, and gain awareness of contemporary controversies on policing. Diverse primary materials, including federal and state cases and statutes and police department policies—provide a broad exposure to the types of law that govern public policing. Photos, links to videos, protest art, and charts—pique student interest, enable richer discussions, and provide additional context for legal materials in the book. Integration of scholarly work on policing, on the law, and on the impact of police practices—enables students to make more sophisticated assessments of the law. Notes and questions—designed to (a) highlight alternative strategies lawyers might use to change the law, and (b) raise comparative institutional questions about who is best suited to regulate the police. Discussion of legal topics relevant to contemporary discussions of policing—studied nowhere else in the law school curriculum.

Informants and Undercover Investigations

Author : Dennis G. Fitzgerald
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 084930413X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Informants and Undercover Investigations written by Dennis G. Fitzgerald and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informants are an invaluable, often instrumental aspect of criminal investigations, but they do present certain management issues. In the necessarily clandestine world they inhabit, the imposition of institutional control presents unique challenges. Lack of training and communication among law enforcement professionals tend to ensure the same error

No-Body Homicide Cases

Author : Thomas A.(Tad) DiBiase
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040081533
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book No-Body Homicide Cases written by Thomas A.(Tad) DiBiase and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best piece of evidence the victim‘s body is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases, this book provides the author‘s insight gained from investigating and trying a no-body case along with what he‘s learned consulting on scores of others across t