STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 87-923.

516 So.2d 327 (1987)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Robert JOHNSON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Candance M. Sunderland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Robert Mack, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The state appeals the trial court's order granting a motion to disclose the identity of the state's confidential informant. The state makes a rather compelling argument that since it will not be necessary for it to refer to the informant in its presentation of its case and because the informant is not alleged to have been an active participant, the state's privilege of nondisclosure should have been respected by the trial court. Roviaro v. United States...

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