Today’s Quote

“We’re a justice agency. We would hate to think that someone was convicted based on this kind of scenario.”

--Los Angeles County Assistant Sheriff Dick Foreman, revealing that authorities have begun reviewing every case in the last decade in which one inmate testified that another had confessed in jail. The action followed the demonstration by a long-time informant that he could gather enough information about a murder case while in jail to implicate a defendant he had never met.