Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the 2016 National Lawyers Convention. If you are seating in this room today, more than likely you took an oath and believe in the advocacy and advising of the general public. Not only that you promise to do everything in your capability to serve and protect individual in and out of the court room. Take a moment while your here and imagine living your life. Family or no family everything is going perfectly. Until one day you are pulled from your home, local grocery store or better yet sidewalk and taken in for questioning on a case that you have no knowledge on. It’s been said that you are the prime suspect of a case based off the testimony given by an informant, who gave your name for monetary gain. 24 hours later you have …show more content…
The prosecutor going against your fate uses that same informant’s testimony in court to argue your place in the case, notwithstanding or considering the morality of the informant. Lastly, you are sentenced to jail for life. Within the United States there are more than 20,000 individuals who have been wrongly convicted. 15% of those wrongful convictions have caused by statements given by informants. Though there are some cases where these circumstances don’t occur, why is it that countless time some of you if not all have relied on unlawful and unjust ways in order to skew a case to make a conviction. Especially in the use of informants. Despite the name in which individuals are called whether it’s a snitch, jail house rat the outcome or goal of the individual is the same. The use of cooperating defendants and informants who provide information or testimony in exchange for financial incentives, protection, or leniency is questionable and should be analyzed and or eliminated as a tactic used in the court of law. A former federal prosecutor, someone in your exact same shoes, described informants and their actions