By Mrs. Eileen Hunter — about the author.
On July 20, 2001, Vaccara Comanche contacted the Sheriff’s Office offering information on “several” homicides. Detective Medaries testified investigators took two recorded statements from him that day: “One of the statements… was relative to information he had regarding the killings on Greenwood. We took another recorded statement from him about information he was going to provide us in an unrelated case that we were working.” (R. 1989; the Comanche file.)
Informant research calls this the career pattern: the same incarcerated men offering information across multiple cases, with benefits tracking usefulness. The expert declaration in this case flagged “the number of cases the informants were providing information about” as one of the specific risk factors here. (Bloom Decl. ¶¶ 17–18.) Glen Dale Nelson had been a State informant since at least 1992. (The Nelson file.)
The other half: providing information on multiple cases is not a crime and not proof of falsity — it is impeachment context, which is exactly why the law requires its disclosure. Whether the jury got that context is the question in the pending writ.
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