Jailhouse snitches and error-prone crime labs — problems that continue to bedevil the nation’s criminal justice system — form the backdrop to two U.S. Supreme Court cases with huge implications for the rights of defendants and the role of prosecutors.
Counsel representing a former California attorney general and Los Angeles district attorney, John Van de Kamp — now of counsel to the Los Angeles office of New York-based Dewey & LeBoeuf — and Van de Kamp’s former chief assistant in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, Curt Livesay — now of counsel to Trutanich Michel in Long Beach, Calif. — will urge the high court today to give his two clients absolute immunity from a civil rights lawsuit whose roots are in the 1970s and 1980s jailhouse informant scandal in Los Angeles. The case is Van de Kamp v. Goldstein .
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