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4Cal. Penal Code 701.5(West 1999).
5Mark Curriden,what's the cost of using paid informener? A.B.A.J. ,June 1991, at 43.
6Mark Curriden, The informant trap: secrete threat to justice, NAT' L L. J., Feb. 20, 1995, at A 1, A28.
7Penelop R. Glover, Re - defining friendship : Emplyment of informants by police, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 749 ( summer, 2001 ).
8Commonwealth v. Upton,390 Mass.562,458 N.E.2d 717(1983).
9Carla A. Ellis, Current implications of an informant's veracity : Commwealth v. Rojas, 25 New Eng. L. Rev. 859 ( spring, 1991 ).
10PBS Ordine,Snitch:How informants have become a key part of prosecutiorial strategyin the drug war, Fortline, at http://www. pbs.org/wghb/pages/frontline/shows/snitch(last visited Mar. 1,2001 ).
