Suspect’s death puts reward in question

Mark Gergen quoted in The New York Times, March 29, 2013

Mark Gergen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, said he did not know of any previous litigation in California over whether rewards should be paid if the suspect dies before conviction…. “Looking beneath the surface, in many of these cases there are qualms about whether the person claiming the reward really played an instrumental role,” he said.