Ditch the Snitch: Why State and Federal Governments Should Limit the Use and Admissibility of Informant Testimony

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erreka Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Informant Testimony

The truth about snitches: an archival analysis of informant testimony

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Neuschatz ◽  
Danielle K. DeLoach ◽  
Megan A. Hillgartner ◽  
Melanie B. Fessinger ◽  
Stacy A. Wetmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Informant Testimony

Forensic Science

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Giannelli
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Informant Testimony ◽  
Eyewitness Identifications

The United States Supreme Court has long recognized the value of scientific evidence - especially when compared to other types of evidence such as eyewitness identifications, confessions, and informant testimony. For example, in Escobedo v. Illinois, the Court observed: “We have learned the lesson of history, ancient and modern, that a system of criminal law enforcement which comes to depend on the ‘confession’ will, in the long run, be less reliable and more subject to abuses than a system which depends on extrinsic evidence independently secured through skillful investigation.” Similarly, in Davis v. Mississippi, the Court commented:Detention for fingerprinting may constitute a much less serious intrusion upon personal security than other types of police searches and detentions. Fingerprinting involves none of the probing into an individual's private life and thoughts that marks an interrogation or search. Nor can fingerprint detention be employed repeatedly to harass any individual, since the police need only one set of each person's prints. Furthermore, fingerprinting is an inherently more reliable and effective crime-solving tool than eyewitness identifications or confessions and is not subject to such abuses as the improper line-up and the “third degree.”

Unreliable informant testimony.

2012 ◽  
pp. 213-238
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Neuschatz ◽  
Nicholaos Jones ◽  
Stacy A. Wetmore ◽  
Joy McClung
Keyword(s):  
Informant Testimony

The role of ulterior motives, inconsistencies, and details in unreliable jailhouse informant testimony

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 667-686
Author(s):  
Danielle K. DeLoach ◽  
Jeffrey S. Neuschatz ◽  
Stacy A. Wetmore ◽  
Brian H. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Informant Testimony ◽  
Ulterior Motives

Forensic Science

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Giannelli
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Informant Testimony ◽  
Eyewitness Identifications

The United States Supreme Court has long recognized the value of scientific evidence – especially when compared to other types of evidence such as eyewitness identifications, confessions, and informant testimony. For example, in Escobedo v. Illinois, the Court observed: “We have learned the lesson of history, ancient and modern, that a system of criminal law enforcement which comes to depend on the –confession— will, in the long run, be less reliable and more subject to abuses than a system which depends on extrinsic evidence independently secured through skillful investigation.” Similarly, in Davis v. Mississippi, the Court commented:Detention for fingerprinting may constitute a much less serious intrusion upon personal security than other types of police searches and detentions. Fingerprinting involves none of the probing into an individual's private life and thoughts that marks an interrogation or search. Nor can fingerprint detention be employed repeatedly to harass any individual, since the police need only one set of each person's prints. Furthermore, fingerprinting is an inherently more reliable and effective crime-solving tool than eyewitness identifications or confessions and is not subject to such abuses as the improper line-up and the “third degree.”

scholarly journals Children’s developing capacity to calibrate the verbal testimony of others with observed evidence when learning causal relations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niamh Caitriona Mcloughlin ◽  
Zoe Finiasz ◽  
David M. Sobel ◽  
Kathleen H. Corriveau
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relations ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Informant Testimony ◽  
Observable Data

Across two studies (N = 120), we explored the development of children’s ability to calibrate the certainty of informant testimony with observable data that varied in the degree of predictive causal accuracy. In Study 1, four- and 5-year-olds heard a certain or uncertain explanation about deterministic causal relations. Five-year-olds learned better when the informant provided a certain, more calibrated explanation. In Study 2, children heard similar explanations about probabilistic relations, making the uncertain informant more calibrated. In an advance on previous calibration research, 5-year-olds learned better from an uncertain informant, but only when the explanation was attuned to the stochasticity of the data. These findings imply that the capacity to integrate, and learn efficiently from, distinct sources of knowledge emerges in the preschool years.

Secondary Confessions as Post-identification Feedback: How Jailhouse Informant Testimony Can Alter Eyewitnesses’ Identification Decisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-384
Author(s):  
Preston M. Mote ◽  
Jeffrey S. Neuschatz ◽  
Brian H. Bornstein ◽  
Stacy A. Wetmore ◽  
Kylie N. Key
Keyword(s):  
Informant Testimony

scholarly journals After the Massacre: Women’s Islamist Activism in Post-Coup Egypt

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-108
Author(s):  
Sarah ElMasry ◽  
Neil Ketchley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Personal Cost ◽  
Street Politics ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Informant Testimony

This paper draws on event data and interviews to examine the effects of repression on the gendered dynamics of Islamist mobilization in Egypt following the 2013 military coup. Our analysis shows that women’s anti-coup groups were more likely to mobilize following the killing of up to 1,000 anti-coup protestors at Rabaa al-Adawiyya in August 2013. Women’s protests were also more likely in the home districts of those killed at Rabaa. Informant testimony indicates that the Rabaa massacre figured as a transformative event that female activists drew on to motivate their involvement in street protests. Taken together, our findings suggest that very harsh repression can enable women’s participation in Islamist street politics – but this activism can come at a considerable personal cost for participants. Women who joined anti-coup protests were subjected to calibrated sexual violence by Egyptian security forces as well as other social penalties.

scholarly journals Ceasefire: The Impact of Republican Political Culture on the Ceasefire Process in Northern Ireland

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montgomery Sapone
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
The Past ◽  
Informant Testimony ◽  
The Impact

On August 31, 1994, the Provisional IRA (PIRA) declared a cessation of military operations. For the past thirty years, the conflict in Northern Ireland has been raging almost without pause.1 British security forces have attempted to control the violence by establishing road blocks, conducting house searches, altering the judicial system to allow conviction on informant testimony, instituting internment without trial for paramilitary suspects, garrisoning over thirty thousand British soldiers in Northern Ireland, instituting broadcasting bans of Sinn Féin, and conducting intensive interrogation of suspects. Despite the best attempts of the British government over the past few decades to thwart PIRA, the conflict persisted. To sustain a low-intensity war under these conditions requires more than guns and ammunition; it requires the support of a political community, extensive organization of economic resources, and cultural values that give meaning to the conflict.

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