The State - News from Sept. 8, 1989
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Reacting to allegations of false testimony by jailhouse informants in criminal cases, the state Senate approved a bill that would limit payments to informants to $50 and require judges to warn juries to be skeptical of their testimony. The measure, authored by Assemblyman Richard E. Floyd (D-Carson), is in response to news accounts of a jailhouse informant who demonstrated that he could invent a convincing confession.
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