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Confidential Informant: Directed by Michael Oblowitz. With Mel Gibson, Dominic Purcell, Nick Stahl, Kate Bosworth. A police detective suffering from cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty, so his family can receive the hefty death benefits from the department.
- (2.8K)
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Michael Oblowitz
- 2023-06-27
Confidential Informant is a 2023 American thriller film written by Michael Oblowitz, Michael Kaycheck and Brooke Nasser, directed by Oblowitz and starring Dominic Purcell, Kate Bosworth and Mel Gibson.
- What Is A Confidential Informant?
- What Do Confidential Informants do?
- How Does A Confidential Informant Work?
- Can A Confidential Informant Hurt My Case?
- Do Confidential Informants Get Their Charges dropped?
- Do Confidential Informants Get paid?
- Are Confidential Informants Public Record?
- Are Confidential Informants Protected?
- Do Confidential Informants Have to Testify in Court?
- What If A Confidential Informant Doesn’T Show Up to Court to Testify?
Confidential informants aren’t the same as anonymous sources or tipsters. A confidential informant (“CI”) is someone that is typically facing criminal charges and law enforcement convinces the CI to “work off” their criminal charges. In other words, the police claim that your charge will be lessened or maybe even go away if you work as a snitch for...
CI’s are regular folks that provide law enforcement with confidential, possibly damning, information against you. The Confidential Informant may be a drug dealer, a significant other, someone you are friends with, someone that works for you, someone that you work for, etc. The CI may be charged with a serious drug (or other) criminal offense. The C...
The CI may be required to testify in a trial of the person they are snitching on. But that is the sobering truth of being a CI. You can be called as a witnessto testify on the government’s behalf if the person you snitched on requests a jury trial. A common myth that is absolutely not true is that confidential informants do not testify in trials. T...
Absolutely. A confidential informant’s information can possibly be used against you for your arrest and later in your trial if you request a jury trial. The reason for this is the police use the CI to gain probable cause for your arrest.
It depends. If the CI works enough drug deals and/or provides enough information to the police that leads to a conviction or arrest, the prosecutor decides whether the charges will be dropped or lessened to a plea agreementfor the CI. The CI must provide 100% honest information. If law enforcement learns otherwise, all deals or hopes of deals could...
Yes, in some circumstances the police will pay a person to be a CI. Believe it or not — it is legal for law enforcement to pay a government snitch! Even with the promise of payment, the decision to become a CI is very dangerous. People who are arrested because you are a CI can put your life and the life of your loved ones in danger. Whatever the am...
No, the identity of informants are not public record. If CI’s were public record, it would put their lives in danger and the lives of their loved ones. However, the identity of a confidential informant will be revealed to the Defendant if the Defendant goes to trial. There may be other reasons why the identity of the CI will be revealed. In general...
Confidential Informants can never be 100% protected by the Government or anyone else. Being a CI is a very dangerous, risky endeavor. Anyone considering being a CI should first talk to a criminal defense attorney. You don’t even have to hire the attorney, but this type of advice and this decision could affect you the rest of your life. Some people ...
Possibly, yes. If you are testifying at trial as a CI, you need an attorney that knows criminal procedure and has experience representing CI’s. If you are the defendant in a trial where a CI is testifying, you could also benefit from having a defense attorney advise you. The state will do it’s best to not reveal the identity of the CI. Your attorne...
It could cause real problems for the prosecution, but doesn’t necessarily mean a win for you. It all depends on the facts of your case. If the CI doesn’t testify against you but the State uses the evidence from the CI against you, your attorney would need to know how to argue against the admissibility of this information.
This gritty crime thriller starring Mel Gibson tells the tale of two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer during a crack epidemic. Hoping for leads,...
- Michael Oblowitz
- Buffalo 8 Productions
- Dominic Purcell
- Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Action
Aug 22, 2022 · The general rule is that the prosecution doesn't have to disclose the identity of a confidential informant. However, this rule has many exceptions; if a criminal defendant can show the importance of the CI's identity to the case, it may be possible to find out who's been talking to the cops.
- In a criminal case, the prosecution must disclose information that forms the basis of its case. This process is called discovery. A defendant is en...
- The general rule is that the prosecution doesn’t have to disclose the identity of a confidential informant. However, this rule has many exceptions;...
- The prosecution and police typically don’t have to reveal the identity of an informant if they don’t have it. So if they get an anonymous phone cal...
A narcotics agent with a cancer diagnosis pays off a junkie informant in a deadly scheme to support his family after his murder in the line of duty.
Jun 6, 2023 · Hoping for leads, Moran (Dominic Purcell, “Prison Break”) and Thorton (Nick Stahl, Sin City) pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife (Kate Bosworth, Superman Returns) and son ...
- 3 min
- 608.3K
- Lionsgate Movies
