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2 Apr 2010, 11:07 am
Alexandra Natapoff, a leading national expert on the issue, recently published a new book, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, which extensively details the threat that snitch testimony poses to the criminal justice system. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 1:41 pm
Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat SNITCHING: CRIMINAL INFORMANTS AND THE EROSION OF AMERICAN JUSTICE by Alexandra Natapoff LAW ON DISPLAY: THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF LEGAL PERSUASION AND JUDGMENT by Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel REFUGEE ROULETTE: DISPARITIES IN ASYLUM AND ADJUDICATION AND PROPOSALS FOR REFORM by Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 9:26 am
Alexandra Natapoff has argued that snitching promotes crime, either because it's knowingly tolerated by authorities (in one notorious, recent instance Dallas Sheriff's deputies allowed an informant to help pull off an armed robbery without intervening) or by reducing sentences for criminals who inform. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 12:01 pm
The Snitching Blog was created by Alexandra Natapoff, a professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 12:27 am
In the meantime, here are several recent items that merit Grits readers' attention:Free Standing InnocenceSeveral good items are up at the blog A Criminal Enterprise, including this piece on whether there exists (or should exist) a free standing actual innocence claim under the 8th Amendment.Wall Street Meets The WireSee, from White Collar Crime Prof Blog, "Wall Street Meets The Wire," and also Alexandra Natapoff's related comments on differences between white… [read post]
4 Oct 2009, 7:39 pm
Law professor Alexandra Natapoff is perhaps the nation’s number one authority on the law of “snitching,” which she defines as “when police or prosecutors offer lenience to criminal suspects in exchange for information or cooperation. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 3:15 am
This week’s new addition to the blogroll is Alexandra Natapoff’s Snitching Blog, which covers exactly what you might think. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 12:41 am
While I was AWOL, Scott at Grits for Breakfast picked up on a post by Alexandra Natapoff at Snitching Blog about a new ABA opinion requiring prosecutors "make timely disclosure to the defense of all evidence or information known to the prosecutor that tends to negate the guilt of the accused or mitigates the offense. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 7:09 am
This month, Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School in L.A., launched a blog on snitching and the criminal justice system. http://www.snitching.org/Offers some interesting notes on snitches and snitching and legal news of interest. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 10:24 am
Alexandra Natapoff at the Snitching Blog brings word of a recent but little-publicized American Bar Association opinion (pdf) defining the scope of prosecutors' ethical duty to disclose information favorable to the defense. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 3:41 am
The latest indication of that is Alexandra Natapoff’s Snitching Blog, which deals with… well, you can pretty much guess. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 7:37 pm
Professor Alexandra Natapoff at Loyola Law School Los Angeles has started Snitching Blog, which she explains as follows: snitching = when police or prosecutors offer lenience to criminal suspects in exchange for information or cooperation Snitching Blog is devoted to... [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 1:48 am
I'm pleased to learn that one of my favorite thinkers on criminal justice topics - Loyola (CA) law prof Alexandra Natapoff - has launched the "Snitching Blog" to focus on issues surrounding confidential informants (something I've encouraged her to do for at least the last three years!). [read post]
10 May 2009, 6:30 am
Alexandra Natapoff, arguably the nation's leading academic expert on the uses and abuses of confidential informants, who maintains that snitch agreements can actually produce and tolerate crime instead of preventing it. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 6:26 am
The title of this post is the title of this interesting new paper from the always interesting Professor Alexandra Natapoff. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 7:38 am
That's why law prof Alexandra Natapoff argues that widespread use of snitches can be "crime producing and corrupting. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 6:56 am
Alexandra Natapoff, whose critiques of snitching I've relied on for this argument, and James Q Wilson, the progenitor of the Broken Windows theory, come from very different places on the political spectrum (he's a neocon intellectual, she's a former federal public defender), but their theories on this subject seem to coincide. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 1:45 pm
Natapoff after replying myself, curious about her answer. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 11:07 am
" The Texas bill mentioned was passed in reaction to the infamous Tulia and Hearne cases, but regular readers know I think the corroboration requirement for informants should be expanded.The In These Times reporter quoted one of Grits' favorite thinkers on the topic, Loyola (CA) law professor Alexandra Natapoff, who offered up this gem:"The government's use of criminal informants is largely secretive, unregulated and unaccountable," she says. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 3:02 am
“We have the most data on capital and homicide convictions because they are the most high profile,” [Alexandra Natapoff, an associate professor of law at Loyola University] says, “so we have no idea how many wrongful convictions there are in larceny cases or assault cases or any other because nobody is paying any attention to those. [read post]
