He hated snitches; they tended to wind up dead.
Widely reported exonerations have alerted the public to the uncomfortable fact that juries are sometimes biased, that the police sometimes lie and that snitches often do.But what if executions save lives by deterring potential murderers?
Other common problems are incompetent court-appointed defence lawyers, fraudulent scientific evidence and bogus testimony from jail "snitches" who have been bribed.One answer is the proposed Innocence Protection Act.
With so much at stake, snitches sometimes tell prosecutors what they want to hear.
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But snitches hoping to avoid draconian jail terms may sometimes be tempted to compose rather than merely to sing.Sing or sufferIt is not unusual for a co-operator to have 15 or 20 long meetings with agents and prosecutors.
Many convictions also depend on the testimony of a "co-operating witness", who snitches for the same reason.
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Now they face their biggest shake-up for decades.In this section Untying independent schools Harvest time Small world Damned lies and revisions Snitches in wigs Straws in the wind Shuffling sandals Graceless under pressure Correction: Carlton and Granada ReprintsThis is partly thanks to new competitive pressures.
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Mr Flemmi's girlfriend and stepdaughter were killed for knowing too much, prosecutors say.Ironically, Mr Bulger and Mr Flemmi were informers themselves, though they saw themselves as "strategists", not "snitches", according to "Whitey Bulger", a riveting book by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy.
