A committee of legal experts, referred to as the Informant Policies & Practices Evaluation Committee (IPPEC), hand-picked by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas on Monday issued a report declaring his office a “rudderless ship” and calling for a deeper investigation into the use of jailhouse informants, according to the O.C. Register.
Rackauckas’ hand-picked panel backfired on him as they are calling for the Orange County Grand Jury, the state Attorney General or the U.S. Department of Justice to further investigate the allegations that prosecutors and police misused a covert network of jailhouse informants and withheld evidence from defense attorneys. Continue reading