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HARDIMAN v. STATE

No. 123, September Term, 1981.

50 Md. App. 98 (1981)

436 A.2d 923

CARL JAMES HARDIMAN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Sause, Jr., District Public Defender, for appellant.

Philip M. Andrews, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Paul S. Podolak, State's Attorney for Cecil County, and John L. Scarborough, Assistant State's Attorney for Cecil County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before LOWE, COUCH and WEANT, JJ.

LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Prologue

In Maryland, the prosecution has the privilege of withholding from disclosure the identity of persons who furnish information to police officers concerning the commission of crimes. Nutter v. State, 8 Md.App. 635, 636 (1970). The privilege is not absolute. Whether the disclosure, once demanded, is to be compelled is within the sound discretion of the...

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