PREVENTING FALSE TESTIMONY: NDEJC pushes legislation regulating use of jailhouse informants

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Founder and Director of the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic, Jimmy Gurule, is working to push new legislation in the Hoosier State to make it harder for jailhouse informants to testify in court.

Advocate groups argue these "snitches" lack credibility, because often, they have something to gain from their testimony.

For the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic, it's a policy problem and a law that needs to change.

ABC57 Investigator Reporter Annie Kate shares the clinic's motivation behind this effort.