Jack Marrin Williamson and Morris Lee Lowrey v. United States
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The court ended Williamson's categorical rule excluding testimony from informants promised contingent fees; the confirmed treatment is listed below.
28 later cases cite Jack Marrin Williamson and Morris Lee Lowrey v. United States; 28 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.
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Overruled
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The Fifth Circuit en banc overruled Williamson's rule requiring automatic exclusion of a compensated informant's testimony.
United States v. Cervantes-Pacheco · Fifth Circuit (en banc) · filed
Accordingly, we overrule Williamson and its per se exclusionary rule.
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