Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden
1. Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who is directed to threaten the defendant with assassination by the Mexican Mafia in order to elicit a confession?
2. Are a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to counsel violated and circumvented where the state charges and holds a defendant in custody for a minor crime in order to position a paid, confidential informant posing as a high-ranking Mexican Mafia member, adjacent to the defendants' cell for the purpose of eliciting a confession on an uncharged major crime?
Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who is directed to threaten the defendant with assassination by the Mexican Mafia in order to elicit a confession?