Opinion ID: 71415
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Heading: Dismissal of Charges Against Plaintiff

Text: 8 In December 1989, the MPD chief asked that the state begin an investigation into the MPD Narcotics and Intelligence Unit. That investigation uncovered evidence of extensive abuse involving the fund used to pay confidential informants for tips, including falsifying the identity of informants. The investigation discovered that police officers had recorded informant money as being transferred to non-existent informants, presumably pocketing the money themselves. 9 In August 1992, a magistrate judge recommended granting Plaintiff a new trial on both of his earlier federal convictions. The magistrate judge concluded for the 20 July search that, [h]ad the information which this Court now possesses about Wooten, i.e., that he routinely falsified records and may well have lied about the existence of a confidential informant, been presented to the trial judge and jury, it is highly unlikely that the defendant would have been convicted. (Recommendation, pp. 14-15.) 3 Later, the district court granted the United States Attorney's motion to dismiss the indictments.