Justices Reject Appeal in Death Row Innocence Case With Informant Issue

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of a Florida death row inmate who says he’s innocent but was convicted due to faulty jailhouse informant testimony.

The justices on Monday rejected one of the pending appeals of James Dailey, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1987 from the murder of a 14-year-old girl.

Dailey asked courts to consider his co-defendant’s 2017 confession taking sole responsibility for the crime, as well as evidence the prosecution failed to disclose. This included a statement by a former inmate at the jail where Dailey had been housed revealing that the ...