Self Interest Informant

[miss ann]

What is the name of your state? NY
Can the Words Of A Self Interest Informant;( One with pending charges, reward and encouragement to reduce his exposure to federal incarceration) Convict Without any Corroboration In A control buy?
The scenerio of sting operation was done 3 times in a 4 month period.
1. No buy money ever recovered
2. No agents ever witnessed money exchanged for drugs
3. no agents ever witnessed defendant enter the target location
4. No tape recording of drugs directly relating to a sale
5. Defendants Voice is on one tape but with no crime; mere prsence at the scene on one occassion

 

[outonbail]

No one is going to be convicted of a crime, simply on the word of an informant alone.

Have you been charged with a crime?

 

[smutlydog]

What is the name of your state? NY
Can the Words Of A Self Interest Informant;( One with pending charges, reward and encouragement to reduce his exposure to federal incarceration) Convict Without any Corroboration In A control buy?
The scenerio of sting operation was done 3 times in a 4 month period.
1. No buy money ever recovered
2. No agents ever witnessed money exchanged for drugs
3. no agents ever witnessed defendant enter the target location
4. No tape recording of drugs directly relating to a sale
5. Defendants Voice is on one tape but with no crime; mere prsence at the scene on one occassion

the tape recording doesn't have to be directly related to specific sale so long as it is only part of the evidence they have. All informants have a self interest. That's why the courts want other form of evidence to back it up.