McBeath v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding it is not necessary to have quid pro quo understanding in order to find agency
• finding that incriminating information was deliberately elicited as jailhouse informant working with detectives asked defendant questions likely to elicit incriminating responses and used interrogation techniques to prompt confession through emotional manipulation
• finding agency relationship when informant “was told to report back what was said in [the defendant’s] exact words. This informed [the informant] that the police wanted more information about the crime and induced him to obtain that information[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).