Winning a criminal trial dominated by or peppered with informant testimony is an uphill battle. It is a battle that is too often needlessly lost by uninformed defense attorneys.

While your client expects to be vindicated at trial, you know the truth — acquittals in drug cases are few and far between. Proving informant and agent misconduct may not win your case. However, it is a card that can be effectively played, winning favorable plea bargains and downward departures at sentencing.

Learn the rules for handling informants and beat the government at its own game.

Dennis G. Fitzgerald, J. D. has been assisting the defense bar for more than a decade. He has 35 years experience in both international and domestic law enforcement and law enforcement training. He has served as a police supervisor with the City of Miami Police Department and as a Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. He was the co-founder and director of the National Institute for Drug Enforcement Training and a visiting faculty member at the FBI's International Law Enforcement Training Academy.

Fitzgerald is the author of Informant Law Deskbook (West Publishing, 1997), Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy, and Procedure (CRC Press, 2007), several criminal justice training manuals and related magazine articles, including Inside the Informant File.

As a silent partner, Fitzgerald's advice has proven invaluable in criminal and civil cases. He has assembled a cadre of retired local, state and federal agents ready to evaluate your case for expert testimony and trial strategy.

Don't go it alone! Your client deserves the best defense.

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Available at CRCPress.com and Amazon.com.

Fitzgerald's expertise includes:

Case Assistance:

• Case File Review
• Informant Impeachment
• Client Debriefing: Crossing the Cooperation Threshold
• Getting the Most Out of Informant Agreements
• Maximizing Rewards
• Witness Protection

Law Enforcement Agency Procedures:

• Federal Agency Informant Manuals
• Sting and Reverse Undercover Operations
• Search Warrant and Raid Procedures

Read Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy, and Procedure (CRC Press, 2007) before you plead your client guilty. It includes:

• Rules for controlling informants
• Informants and search warrants: Eight steps police should follow
• Procedures for controlled informant buys
• How information must be corroborated
• Cooperation and plea agreements: Getting full value for your client's information
• Inside the Witness Security Program. Is the program something your client should consider?
• Instant access to federal agency informant manuals

Contact:
Dennis Fitzgerald
fitzgerald@substantialassistance.com

A new book, Reward: Inside America's Billion Dollar Informant Network, will be released in 2008.

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