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Media
Alert:
PBS
Frontline
to
air
"Snitch"
1/8/99
On Tuesday, January 12 at
9pm (check local listings), PBS will air "Snitch," a 90 minute feature
exposing the use and misuse of confidential informants by the U.S. government.
Frontline will examine how mandatory minimum sentencing legislation turned
the use of informants into the lynchpin of prosecutorial strategy in the
Drug War. Producer Ofra Bikel takes viewers inside the mind of the
informant and profiles some unsettling cases in which the most minor offenders
are serving harsh prison sentences on the word of a snitch, while higher-ups,
with information to trade, walk free.
(See our story on a Tenth
Circuit Case which could end the trading of leniency for "the right testimony,"
at http://www.drcnet.org/wol/068.html#testimony.
Also, see related articles and editorial in Issue #35, at http://www.drcnet.org/wol/035.html.)
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Issue #73, 1/8/99
Murder Charges Against Four in Baltimore Dismissed for Lack of Court Space | Rehnquist to Congress: Stop Federalizing Crime | Special Report: Canadian Citizens, Investors Busted for Hemp to Help Nicaraguan Hurricane Victims | Ann Landers Speaks Out on the Drug War, Marijuana Laws | Syringe Exchange Protest in New Jersey | Medicinal Marijuana in Hawai'i: A Review of Events | Dutch Marijuana Use Half That Of America, Study Reveals | Media Alert: PBS Frontline to air Snitch | Editorial: New Hope in California
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