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Mark Godsey
Daniel P. & Judith L. Carmichael Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law; Director, Center for the Global Study of Wrongful Conviction; Director, Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
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Jessica S. Henry
Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Montclair University
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Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, University of California-Irvine
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I think paid informants and jailhouse snitches are more common than people realize and it’s always difficult for the defense to discover this. It seems easy to hide these pay-offs. It really is disgusting that they convict people based on bribery or the incentive of an early release from prison or threats.