Orange County: Prosecutorial misconduct and the misuse of jailhouse informants
THE INTERCEPT
Prosecutorial misconduct and
the misuse of jailhouse informants are persistent problems in the
criminal justice system. According to the National Registry of
Exonerations, since 1989 there have been 923 exonerations tied
to official misconduct by prosecutors, police, or other government
officials, 89 of them in cases involving the use of jailhouse snitches.
Over the last two years, a scandal involving both has engulfed Orange
County, California, exposing systemic violation of defendants’
constitutional rights and calling into question the legality of the
prosecution of a number of violent felony cases.
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