Reducing Wrongful Convictions: California Assembly to Vote on Bill Requiring Corroboration of Jailhouse Informants

Morris1 August 21, 2007 at 05:35 PM
These are all excellent bill that need to be passed. I was absolutely amazed at the amount of eye witnesses that miss identified people. We absolutely need more checks and balances to assure the guilty and not the innocent are put behind bars. It happens much too often. These bills would help prevent Law Enforcement from intimdating and coercing young people into prison during their interrogations. Their six pack lineups would have to be more uniform. No more putting the larger picture of the person they want identified. No more brighter pictures of the person they want identified. They absolutely stack the deck to find you guilty. DA intimidations must stop. These DA's are looking for conviction rates and promotions. They don't care about justice. You are guilty until proven innocent from the day you are suspected or arrested. We need law enforcement to have rules that need to be followed just like you and me. Right now those rules do not exist.

of this is true then you will understand my family are victim to this and in need of an attorney. case is pending in federal going in 4 years we need help with an attorney civil rigts who can stand up for our justice.Reason case taken this long because of the need of attorney.

I urge readers to write to Governor Schwerzenegger supporting these bills. It is easy to do at http://gov.ca.gov/interact

It is scary that the United States incarerates a higher percent of its population than any other democracy; more than India, more than Mexico. The tough-on-crime demand for unreasonably long sentences and the stumbling blocks from a broken parole system turned into dumb-on-crime. That made us less safe and cost us lots of money that would have been better spent on education and other positive programs.

Convicting the innocent based on testimony from jailhouse informants, who have much to gain and nothing to loose by giving false testimony, is unexcusable.

This bill needs to be signed by the governor...one person convicted for something that they did not do is not acceptable, how many men/women have we as a nation executed that were innocent. The other side to this is the person that is guilty is out there to commit how many more crimes because he/she got away with it.
Until the district attorneys and the police are held accountable for their actions we will see a lot more innocent people in prison. Until innocence or guilt becomes tangible and not just getting a conviction we need all safety mechanisms in place to protect society from wrongful convictions.
As seen from district attorneys refusal to accept irrefutable proof of innocence and fight to keep innocent people in prison we will never stop convicting innocent people.
This practice must change….society should be protected from unconstitutional imprisonment

An earlier poster gave the address to write the Governor in support of these bills. Everyday our rights are being whittled away. Let's work towards protecting ourselves and others from false imprisonment due to questionable testimony. No one should be convicted of anything on unsubstantiad testimony. It's in our best interest and the best interest of this state to do everything possible to ensure that no one is convicted for a crime they did not commit.

its not just jailhouse snitch its one who gets arriested then gives up other people for their freedom

Good call Gentle warrior, We have a situation where police and district attornys Need not be held accountable for lying to get a conviction. Please read,on line, "Junk Forensics in San Diego"

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