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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Dec. 6, 2007

Database Needed to Monitor Informants

Letter to the Editor - A man who spent 25 years in prison for a murder that he didn't commit weighs in on the controversy over the testimony of jailhouse informants.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

      Our founding fathers agonized over the provisions of the Constitution that guaranteed rights to citizens and limited powers to the government. The right to a fair trial, where defendants were able to fully apprise and challenge the government's evidence, was fundamental to this mission.
      The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is continuing the wo...

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