A Miami prosecutor has resigned from a death penalty case after Judge Andrea Ricker Wolfson found evidence of various types of “witness testimony manipulation” and “severe recklessness” by prosecutors stretching back decades. AP story here: Veteran Miami prosecutor quits after judge’s rebuke over conjugal visits for jailhouse informants, and ABA Journal story here.
As I have written many times, there are almost no limits on the kinds of rewards that the government can offer an informant in exchange for information. Typically it is the failure to disclose the benefits, not the propriety of offering the benefits themselves, that constitutes prosecutorial misconduct.