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Read More. October 27, Rex Scism. Crawford , No. Home current Contact Email. Types of informants: Criminal informant-An informant that developed the information through his own criminal activity or associations.
Ordinary citizen-An informant that was a victim or eyewitness to a crime. Publicly known informant-An informant whose identity was released by the police. Select the category of case law.
Major Cases. Use of Force. Juvenile Cases. A Lieutenant may approve the use of informants who fit into the above described category when they believe that the significance of the investigation warrants such approval. Federal supervised release status persons require a federal court order allowing use of an informant.
Permission from the granting authority must be noted on the Informant Activation Form. It is advisable to contact the County Probation Department for those on active probation prior to use. If the informant is a defendant informant, the Probation Department may want to violate the probationer and not want them used as an informant.
PARS Public. No announcements at this time. Viewer Table of Contents View. Definitions of an Informant Confidential Reliable Informant : A person whose reliability and credibility have previously been established. Joe learns from the prosecution that the unnamed CI was involved in the embezzlement and is the main source of evidence for the prosecution.
Joe argues that he needs to know the CI's identity. He claims that the documentation the CI provided the police is false, and that he needs the CI's identity in order to prove how it was falsified. Given that Ricky's information is material to the case against Joe, and that the basis for it is an essential part of Joe's defense, a court might grant a motion to disclose the CI's identity.
But if Ricky was only one piece of the evidence against Joe, and the prosecution had other, independent evidence of Joe's criminal activities, then the court might decide it's not necessary to reveal Ricky's identity to Joe and his attorneys.
The prosecution and police typically don't have to reveal the identity of an informant if they don't have it. So if they get an anonymous phone call detailing some of Joe's shady business activities and use this information as a lead to uncover Joe's dealings, Joe would be out of luck at trial in discovering the identity of the person who ratted him out.
The police are generally not required to conduct investigation to uncover the confidential informant's identity if it's unknown to them. There are two opportunities to find out the identity of a confidential informant: before and during trial. If a defendant doesn't ask for disclosure of the identity at one of these two times, then the issue is waived meaning that the defendant can't find out the identity later.
It can be an uphill battle to learn the identity of a confidential informant, but discovering it can also be crucial to a defendant's ability to mount an adequate defense. In addition, if a court orders disclosure and a witness refuses to name the confidential informant, then the court may strike the testimony of that witness or dismiss the case, so it's worth the effort to try and find out who the confidential informant is.
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