United States v. Angela Jane Johnson

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The United States placed Angela Johnson, the defendant in this case, in a small jail where it was likely that she would encounter an inmate, Robert McNeese, who had acted as an informant for the government in the past. Mr. McNeese was able to elicit damaging information from Ms. Johnson about her involvement in the murder of three government witnesses and one witness’s two young daughters. Ms. Johnson moved to suppress Mr. McNeese’s testimony on the ground that he was a government agent when he talked to her, and that use of the testimony against her would…