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Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
C O R R E C T I O N by Since PLN began publishing in 1990, we have never had to make a retraction based on our own factual mistake. While we’ve run corrections before, they were based on errors in the original news articles or reports that were …
Production Denial Of California Investigative Jailhouse Informant Misuse Documents Ordered Reviewed by Ex California State prisoner Thomas Goldstein sought review of an order denying him grand jury investigative evidentiary materials for use in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for wrongful conviction. The materials had a direct relationship to his …
Georgia Sheriff, Judges, Other Officials Face Misconduct, Criminal Charges by David Reutter In November 2007 a federal grand jury issued an indictment charging Clinch County, Georgia Sheriff Winston C. Peterson, 62, with perjury, using forced prisoner labor and extorting former jail prisoners. Peterson’s indictment marked the second time in the …
Article • July 15, 2008
Washington Guard’s Acceptance of Money for Favors Merits Dismissal by The Washington State Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) has held dismissal is the appropriate sanction for a prison guard who accepted monetary gratuity in exchange for special favors to prisoners. Before the PAB was the appeal of Mark Ortiz, a guard …
Washington Prison Employee Terminated for Allowing Prisoners to View Computer Screen by The State of Washington Personnel Appeals Board (PAB has held that termination is appropriate for a prison employee who released confidential prisoner information to prisoners. Before the PAB became the appeal for Kathy Lorentzen, who was a state …
$3,101,876 Awarded Deceased FBI Informant's Estate After Former Agent Revealed Identity by Emily Mclntyre, as administratix of her deceased son's estate, sued former FBI Agent John Connolly for proximately causing the informant's 1984 death by revealing his identity to mobsters. The estate was awarded $3,101,876. A fisherman and FBI informant, …
Article • June 15, 2008
FBI Informant Sues for 110 Days False Imprisonment in Oregon Prison by An FBI informant is suing the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) for holding him 110 days past his release date. In the late 1970s, Jack Rowlands gained notoriety by planting a bomb at Portland International Airport, in a …
Three Failures To Segregate Vulnerable Jail Prisoner Costs Los Angeles County $44,000 by On November 21, 2006, Los Angeles County paid a thrice-injured jail prisoner $44,000 to settle a tort claim for the injuries he sustained on three occasions when he was placed in general population housing and beaten by …
County Officials Not Liable in Prisoner' Beating by Fellow Prisoner by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, held that Ohio County, Kentucky, jail officials were not liable for a prisoner's vicious beating by a fellow prisoner. Sherman Taylor and Charles …
Government Agent Authorizes Drug Deals Behind Bars by The Western District of Virginia on remand from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that estoppel by entrapment does not require that a government actor was correct in his representation. Michael Fulcher, his wife Ethel and his mother Rosanna created a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Police Must Produce Informant Used to Justify Drug Raid by The plaintiffs alleged that they were unlawfully subjected to a drug raid which the City said was based on information from a confidential informant. At 510: ". . . [A]s a condition precedent for invoking the informer's privilege, the government …
BOP Prisoner Had Right to Duress Defense by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado erred when it denied a prisoner from using the duress defense in a criminal trial for possession of escape paraphernalia in prison. …
Anonymous Jury, Failure to Disclose, Approved in Latin Kings' Trial by The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals approved the use of an anonymous jury by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and held that the Government's failure to disclose to the defense a witness' …
Article • May 15, 2007
Confidential Informant Statements Reviewed by Court In Camera by The court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the denial of a habeas corpus petition by a federal prisoner at the USP in Marion, Illinois who was infracted for killing another prisoner. The petitioner was a member of the Aryan …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Disclosure of Informants Records by The plaintiff federal prisoner sought information on another prisoner, now escaped, whose testimony helped convict the plaintiff. On remand after National Archives and Records Administrative v. Favish, the court holds that the plaintiff's "bare suspicion" of government wrongdoing (i.e., that the informant lied) is …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Witness Protection Program for Famous Author Informant by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that prisoners are not entitled to placement in the federal Witness Protection Program (WPP) and the courts will not enjoin transfers among federal prisons when prison officials claim they will take special …
Publication • 2006
Department of Justice - The Attorney General's Guidelines Regarding the Use of FBI Confidential Human Sources, 2006 T H E A T T O R N E Y G E N E R A L ' S G U I D E L I N E S REGARDING T H …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Bait and Snitch: The High Cost of Snitching for Law Enforcement by by Alexandra Natapoff The t-shirts scream Stop Snitchin'! From Baltimore to Boston to New York; in Pittsburgh, Denver, and Milwaukee, kids are sporting the ominous fashion statement, prompting local fear, outrage, and fierce arguments over crime. Several trials …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
$820,000 Damages Upheld Against NY Jailer Who by $820,000 Damages Upheld Against NY Jailer Who Housed Informant with Defendant by John E. Dannenberg The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld $820,000 in damages for injuries suffered by an informant who was severely beaten by the defendant he had testified …
Federal Prison Problematic For Texas Officials by Michael Rigby A 500-bed federal detention center may have caused more problems than it solved for cash-strapped Willacy County, Texas. Three county commissioners have already been convicted of accepting kickbacks from companies involved with the prison, and a state senator's ties to three …
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