Opinion ID: 1150524
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Heading Rank: 13

Heading: rodman

Text: Captain Rodman, in charge of the detective division of the Salinas Police Department, testified that the division had money budgeted to pay informants and to buy narcotics. He testified that detectives did not have to pay informants with their own money, and that Ward and Joseph had from $250 to $1,000 of division money in their possession at any given time while acting as narcotics detectives. Rodman knew of no other incidents in any jurisdiction in which a law enforcement officer supplied heroin in return for information. In addition to the foregoing testimony the grand jury was given the preliminary hearing transcript mentioned above. The grand jury was not instructed regarding the limitations on admissibility of statements of coconspirators implicating persons other than themselves, and no instructions were given regarding the grand jury's consideration of the transcript of the preliminary hearing. The grand jury was, however, instructed by the prosecutor to consider the magistrate's remarks concerning the immunity section as well as the memorandum of law on that question which the prosecutor had submitted to the magistrate.