Orange County cases that used jailhouse snitch evidence must be re-examined, experts say Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written about prosecutorial misconduct at length, added that the Ortiz case illustrates how informant evidence, when introduced in a jury trial, can be “outcome-determinative” because jurors don’t always view the evidence with the appropriate skepticism. “The legitimacy of the criminal justice system in Orange County […]