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Prosecuting Witness Tampering, Bail Jumping, and Battering From Behind Bars
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The monitoring of inmate calls from jail in order to intervene in victim intimidation during the pretrial phase of domestic violence criminal cases is explained. Sections comprising this report include: witness tampering and intimidation; background on Wisconsin; legal aspects of recording phone calls; Wisconsin statutes related to witness tampering; implications of Crawford v. Washington (re admissibility of hearsay evidence under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment); no-contact orders; Wisconsin's Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Want System; key practices; informing defendants of the consequences of bail violations; special considerations; and "Legal Primer on the Admissibility of Inmate Jail/Prison Recordings."