The issue focused largely on the degree to which law enforcement used informants and collected other information to identify suspects in sexual assault cases as opposed to focusing on the convictions of the suspects. The Judicial Conference established two questions for judges to consider: Are there sources of information that prove to have helped investigators convict defendants in cases involving sexual assault or are those sources not true sources of information about defendants who have been convicted of sex offenses? The Supreme Court in Jackson told judges to focus not on the value of information and the type of information