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Mary Moriarty, former chief Hennepin County Public Defender, questioned why police would set up a gun bust at a busy gas station. https://sahanjournal.com/killed-by-police/police-informant-planned-handgun-purchase-from-dolal-idd-before-fatal-shooting-search-warrant-reveals/
“If the police intended to catch Dolal on gun possession before a sale took place, why corner him at a gas station with a passenger in the car,” she said.
“I don’t know why you would ever set that up in any kind of place as public as that,” she said. “It’s just too dangerous.”
“I don’t know why you would ever set that up in any kind of place as public as that,” she said. “It’s just too dangerous.”
Typically, Moriarty and other defense lawyers know the name of every witness in a criminal case. But they usually don’t know the identity of informants. “It’s just the cop’s word about this person being reliable,” she said.
“...at times a judge has had a concern about the credibility of an informant, and asked for more information privately; rather than disclose the informant’s identity and how they got their information, the county attorney’s office has sometimes dismissed the case,”Moriarty said.
