How have the courts and prosecutors considered the use of a confidential informant at a plea bargain hearing?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Whitt, 205 Cal.Rptr. 810, 36 Cal.3d 724, 685 P.2d 1161 (Cal. 1984):

12 At the time of the plea bargain hearing, both the judge and the prosecutor knew that the informant had provided jailhouse information on several occasions. The informant told them that he was able to provide this information because he knew "a lot of people that are in crime and they are people that know me, and they are people that have always thought that 'this is one of our kind.' ... [T]here are people that have confidence in me, they talk to me, and I could utilize these confidences if they would let me ...." (United States v. Sampol, supra, 636 F.2d at p. 633.)

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