What do you think of the stool pigeons? Jailhouse snitches? Police regularly use sources of information, including imprisoned criminals, tips, leads and as witnesses. Now California puts clamps on the testimony of a prisoner.
California requiring evidence to convict the prisoner hope to reduce the false belief of fraudulent statements as needed for recognition, validation key witness credibility like this article? Share it with others using this link http://bit.ly/pkNfcb:
California joined 17 other States prohibit convicted solely on the testimony of a fellow prisoner, the accused admitted the crime. While some types of rule of law is referred to as a bad move, others, including two California district attorneys and civil libertarians, welcome it. Prisoner can still be used as evidence, unless there is other evidence of the crime.
This is called confirmation. The requirement to confirm that you may have heard about is the principle that the accused cannot be convicted on recognition only. This is because a confession obtained in police interrogation were unreliable unacceptable amount of time. Confirmation is always welcome, and in some cases, a reasonable policy.
As a big deal is it? Practically speaking, not so much, because even the slightest evidence in support of such testimony, or confession are enough to confirm it. But it's also another knock against the jury, whose job is to assess the credibility of witnesses. At least he was with the prisoners, who are known to speak the truth, but often have an incentive to lie.
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