A core tenet of criminal justice is the notion that anyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. This ideal, of course, often falls short. The ...
This is an opinion column. “I’m shocked, shocked to find that paying informants is going on in here.” The Department of Retaliatory Injustice and its FBI sidekicks were about as shocked, shocked that ...
A deadly no-knock raid in Houston last month exemplifies the deadly consequences of no-knock raids and the use of confidential informants — particularly when they’re the figments of a police officer’s ...
First there was Rachel’s Law (2009) in Florida, then Andrew’s Law (2014) in North Dakota, and Matthew’s Law (2021) in Minnesota as lawmakers in those states responded to the tragic deaths of three ...
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to end a years-long investigation into the systemic misuse of jailhouse informants, federal authorities ...
A Chattanooga man is questioning a warranted search of his home that was based on information from a confidential informant. Wendell Glass, 50, was indicted Oct. 10 by a grand jury on one count of ...