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Bill requiring corroboration for jailhouse snitches heads to Governor

The Texas House this afternoon (on third reading) passed the same version of SB 1681 (by Hinojosa/Gallego) as did the Senate, so legislation requiring corroboration to secure a conviction based on jailhouse informant testimony will now head to Governor Perry's desk.Though hardly a cure-all, corroboration of jailhouse snitches was a key recommendation of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. Florida recently passed much more comprehensive legislation to rein in abuses related to informants. See a resource page from the Justice Project on the problem of jailhouse snitches.

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).