WATKINS, Judge.
The State at a preliminary hearing refused to divulge the name of a confidential informant in an alleged drug transaction involving the distribution of cocaine. The trial court ordered the State to divulge the name. We granted alternative writs, which we now make peremptory.
A Louisiana State Police Trooper, Lewis Hyatt, in the presence of the unnamed confidential informant met defendant, Mark Colt Buffington, and the Trooper had a brief conversation...
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