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Show Notes
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) We protect the witnesses from the public, but who protects the public from the witnesses? Peek behind the curtain of the Witness Protection Program and prepare to be shocked, afraid, and bamboozled. Take cover with Reb and start questioning everything and everyone in United States v. Wilson (1981).
**CONTENT WARNING at 58:52 for violence against children**
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SOURCES [chronological order by reference or cite]:
- United States v. Wilson (1981)
- Secord v. Schlachter (1983)
- https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP09S00048R000100020104-6.pdf
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59212-2004Jun21_4.html
- https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000605840009-1.pdf
- https://www.copvcia.com/free/ciadrugs/Ed_Wilson_1.html
- Karen S. Cooperstein, Enforcing Judgments Against Participants in the Witness Protection Program, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1017 (1984)
- Michal Gilad, Who Will Protect The Children?: The Untold Story of Unaccompanied Minors In Witness Protection Programs, 12 Whittier J. Child & Fam. Advoc. 43 (2012)
- Raneta Lawson Mack, The Federal Witness Protection Program Revisited and Compared: Reshaping An Old Weapon To Meet New Challenges in the Global Crime Fighting Effort, U. Miami Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 191 (2014).
- Tanya Asim Cooper, Sacrificing the Child To Convict The Defendant: The Secondary Traumatization of Child Witnesses By Prosecutors, Their Inherent Conflict of Interest, and the Need For Child Witness Counsel, 9 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y & Ethics J. 239 (2011)
- Laura Perry, What's In A Name?, 46 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1563 (2009)
- https://www.baltimoresun.com/2003/04/26/youth-is-found-fatally-shot-after-being-called-as-witness/
- https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/10/31/witness-protection-program-who-protects-public/748986001/
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