STATE v. WHITE

No. 82-1345.

418 So.2d 411 (1982)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Lorenzo WHITE, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michael A. Palecki, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for petitioner.

Jerry Hill, Public Defender, Bartow, and Robert J. Krauss, Asst. Public Defender, St. Petersburg, for respondent.


SCHOONOVER, Judge.

The State of Florida has filed a petition for writ of certiorari alleging that an order of the trial court which required the state to disclose the identity of a confidential informant departed from the essential requirements of law and should be quashed. We agree.

On January 20, 1982, a confidential informant, equipped with a body bug that relayed his voice but did not make a tape recording, was sent into a bar in St. Petersburg,

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