SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday that will bar convictions based solely on the testimony of in-house informants.
Limiting the weight of information provided by jailhouse snitches was first proposed in 2006 by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. The commission found that informant testimony was a leading cause of wrongful convictions and that county prosecutors in California have widely differing policies — or no policies at all — on its use.
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