When it is permitted to pay informants for information?

What will be an ideal response?


Informant payments should be sufficiently modest as to avoid defense accusations of entrapment. When this occurs, the defense will maintain that the investigator's payment to the informant was so high that the informant was enticed into "setting up" the suspect solely for the monetary reward.

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Sophisticated forms of economic crime represent the types of crime typically encountered by the patrol officer

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What is the Supreme Court’s view regarding border patrol officers stopping cars for brief questioning at fixed checkpoints?

A. The officers must have probable cause to stop the vehicle and must have a valid warrant. B. The officers must have probable cause to stop the vehicle but are not required to have a warrant. C. The officers do not need either probable cause or a warrant. D. The officers are not permitted to stop cars at fixed checkpoints, as this violates the constitutional rights of the driver and passengers.

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Testimony by a witness as to facts the witness has heard from others that is offered in evidence at a trial or hearing to prove the truth of the matter asserted is known as _____________

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