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Snitch Testimony - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins, Florida

Snitch Testimony Testimony from in-custody informants, often referred to as ?jailhouse snitches? has been widely used in the American criminal justice system. Unfortunately prosecutors often utilize jailhouse snitches despite their testimony being widely regarded as the least reliable form of evidence in the criminal justice system. The Justice Project created Jailhouse Snitch Testimony: A Policy Review (pdf) to offer recommendations and solutions for improving the standards of admissibility of jailhouse snitch testimony. The policy review includes information on snitch testimony policy and law, case studies, states and jurisdictions which have enacted successful methods for safeguarding against perjured testimony, a model policy, and key statistics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).