In the Wall Street Journal’s June 18 front page article, “Rogue Informants Imperil Massive U.S. Gang Bust,” Elon Law professor Mike Rich provides insights into police investigatory methods and the use of informants in federal criminal investigations.
The article examines federal rules guiding the use of informants in criminal investigations and the impacts that violations of those rules can have in the prosecution of cases involving street gangs.
In the article, Rich describes the value of informants to law enforcement officials seeking to break into organized criminal groups. He also provides insight into the rate at which confidential informants are being used by federal investigators over the last decade, in probes involving domestic counterterrorism, white-collar prosecution and organized-crime cases.
Rich’s article, Coerced Informants and Thirteenth Amendment Limitations on the Police-Informant Relationship, was published in the Santa Clara Law Review in 2010. His article, Lessons of Disloyalty in the World of Criminal Informants, is forthcoming in the American Criminal Law Review.
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