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Confidential Evidence: A Case Study
• P alleges excessive force and false arrest. P alleges he was returning home after going to look for a job and was in the vestibule area of his building when MOS approached him with guns drawn. P alleges that then MOS slammed him then P was placed on the floor and cuffed. Defendant MOS Jeffrey Sisco states that MOS received information from a confidential informant regarding when and where P would have possession of a firearm. MOS Sisco states that MOS waited for P to arrive at the location. P arrived with 2 other individuals and MOS identified themselves as officers. P dropped a plastic bag and MOS Sisco opened the bag and recovered a semi-automatic gun. To the identification of the confidential informant, MOS arrested the other 2 individuals

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