jailhouse informants造句

• Arguing that a jailhouse informant lied on the stand, a defense lawyer is seeking a federal appeal for a man convicted of setting a house fire that killed his three young children.
• However, lacking physical evidence, the verdict was overturned and charges subsequently dropped by Washington D . C . prosecutors after the testimony of a jailhouse informant was determined to be unreliable.
• -- In 43 cases prosecutors " relied upon the inherently unreliable testimony of jailhouse informants, despite the obvious risk that inmates may fabricate testimony to curry favor with authorities ."
• Rackauckas has been heavily criticized for his office's mis-handling of jailhouse informants which has created difficulties in convicting and sentencing defendants due to the violations of defendants'constitutional rights.
• He recommended 119 changes to avoid recurrences, including more funding for Ontario's Center for Forensic Sciences and tougher limits on the use of jailhouse informants such as those who helped convict Morin.
• Three were convicted based on accomplice testimony, two on the word of a jailhouse informant and two others because of a single witness _ all things that would be prohibited under the Ryan commission recommendations.
• Then over the next few months, there were three more exonerated men, freed because their sentence hinged on a jailhouse informant, or new DNA technology proved beyond a shadow of doubt their innocence.
• In March 2015 a California superior courts judge ordered Harris to take over a criminal case after Orange County, California District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was revealed to have illegally employed jailhouse informants and concealed evidence.
• Post-conviction DNA tests, the department said, revealed the limitations of such traditional law enforcement tools as police and eyewitness testimony, the use of jailhouse informants, and blood type and hair tests.
• One of the jailhouse informants testified at the trial that Drake referred sardonically to his encounter with Barrett, saying that he hit her in the head for being white and rich and for saying something obnoxious.