For nearly two years, drug dealer-turned-paid FBI snitch Deneal Bobo has been taping drug exchanges with a camera hidden inside a baseball cap, helping federal prosecutors in California indict no less than seven people on crack dealing charges. Even though Bobo has continued to commit crimes while on the government payroll, his targets' guilty pleas are piling up. Yet the progeny of prosecutions fathered by Bobo also led to a stinging rebuke of the government's tough new sentencing policies.
September 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Before Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California let the jury back into his courtroom Tuesday morning, drug dealer-turned-paid FBI snitch Deneal Bobo entered through a side door and took his place on the witness stand, his face inscrutable.
Meanwhile, four federal marshals formed a perimeter just behind counsel’s table where defendant Jason Lee sat. For a few quiet moments, the accused drug dealer stared at the government’s next witness.
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