Criminal Law and the Death Penalty Day 4 Blog - Jordan Chase

     Today we continued our podcast In the Dark. In this episode the narrator digs deeper into the confessions that were instrumental in the original Curtis Flowers conviction. The investigators seek out people who Flowers had confessed the murders. All of the people who had testified that flowers had confessed to them later came out and said that it was a lie and that flowers had not confessed to the murders. We learned about how in return for money or lighter sentencing people convicted will give or try to gain information that will benefit the police. While this is legal in the case of Curtis Flowers’ snitch 15,000 dollars was promised by John Johnson, the prosecutor, and never delivered. 


(Students take notes during our seminar about In The Dark.)

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