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December 17, 2009

• Federal Guidelines and Data
• Attorney General’s Guidelines Regarding the Use of FBI Confidential Human Sources, U.S. Dep’t of Justice (2006)
• The FBI’s Compliance with the Attorney General’s Investigative Guidelines, U.S. DOJ Inspector General Report (2005)
• Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations, U.S. Dep’t of Justice (2008) (“Filip Memo”) (contains guidelines for corporate cooperation)
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dep’t of Justice


• Hearings and Investigations
• U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Hearing on Law Enforcement Confidential Informant Practices, July 2007
• California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, Report and Recommendations Regarding Informant Testimony (2006)
• The Snitch System, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law (2004)
• American Bar Association Report and Recommendations on Jailhouse Informant Testimony (2005)
• Jailhouse Snitch Testimony: A Policy Review, The Justice Project, Washington, D.C. (2007)
• Everything Secret Degenerates: The FBI's Use of Murders as Informants (2004)
• Investigation of the Involvement of Jail House Informants in the Criminal Justice System in Los Angeles County, Report of the 1989-1990 Los Angeles Grand Jury Report


• Reports and Other Resources
• Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs, Human Rights Watch (2000)

• Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct a Sentence By a Person in Federal Custody
• Petition for Relief from a Conviction or Sentence by a Person in State Custody (Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus)
• Motion for an Informant Reliability Hearing
• Van de Kamp v. Goldstein, ACLU Amicus Brief (2008) (addressing government obligation to collect and disclose information about informants)
• Motion to Dismiss Informant - Based Charges for Lack of Record Keeping (Missouri, 2008)

• The limited value of police policies on informant use
• The Wikileaks informants
• Rich on "stop snitching"
• Guest blogger Professor Michael Rich
• Huffington Post on the dangers of being a snitch
• Another jailhouse snitch drives a homicide investigation
• "It's a matter of trust": Philly Inquirer editorial on citizen cooperation
• Federal witness killed after lawyer allegedly leaks his name
• Important pending legislation in New York
• "Three will set you free"

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