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Failure to Protect Informant Violates 8th Amendment

The court of appeals for the third circuit held that prison informants have an eighth amendment right to be protected from the consequences of their informing and that a lower court erred in failing to appoint counsel. Jerome Hamilton is a Delaware state prisoner. Since at least 1976 he has ...

 

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