B. Frank Thomas v. J.D. Cox, Warden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was no agency relationship where the fellow inmate initiated the contact with the authorities and was advised “to listen for but not elicit information”
• stating that agency requires that the actions of an inmate informant be “fairly ‘attributable to the Government’”
• inmate told to let police investigator know if he heard anything else and \to be alert to anything” the inmate \might say”
• absence of reward supports conclusion there was no quid pro quo
• inmate instructed not to ask any questions
• inmate instructed not to ask any questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).