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Informants Require Reliability Evaluation
A federal district court in New York held that an independent credibility assessment must be done before statements from confidential informants could be used in a prison disciplinary hearing. Plaintiff was infracted for stabbing another prisoner at Sing Sing prison. The only evidence against him was an informant statement. The …
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