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After snitch scandal, what happened to some key players?

The county's jailhouse informant program changed a huge criminal case, and the trajectories of some careers. ....

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Plaintiff lawyer's threats against defendants were extortion, court rules

SANTA ANA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer’s zealous representation of a man who had been fired from a cannabis company crossed the line into extortion when she interfered with a $200 million merger and threatened to turn over allegations of criminal behavior to state officials, a California appeals court ruled. ....

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After unprecedented deal, key Orange County informant again faces life in prison

After unprecedented deal, key Orange County informant again faces life in prison
Oscar Daniel Moriel
By Meghann M. Cuniff
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In December 2017, federal prosecutors visited Orange County Superior Court to support something even more unusual than their cross-jurisdictional courtroom presence: an exceptionally light sentence for an attempted murder defendant who once testified he’d killed “up to five, maybe six” people. 
Oscar Daniel Moriel originally faced life in prison under California’s three-strikes law when he was charged in 2005, but he spent more than a decade helping federal and state authorities as a jail informant in exchange for unprecedented leniency. Praised by federal and Orange County law enforcement officials as “instrumental” in securing convictions for major crimes, Moriel’s deal was described as fair justice for a man whose work against the Mexican Mafia mitigated his crimes and lessened his threat to public safety. ....

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