STATE v. PAUTIER

No. 88-1821.

548 So.2d 709 (1989)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Carlos PAUTIER, Ramon Saavedra and Juan Rivero, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Charles M. Fahlbusch, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Maria Brea Lipinski and John H. Lipinski, Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Rosa C. Figarola, Asst. Public Defender, Bierman, Shohat & Loewy and Edward R. Shohat and Ira N. Loewy, Miami, Armando Gutierrez, Coral Gables, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, LEVY and GERSTEN, JJ.


GERSTEN, Judge.

The State appeals a final order of dismissal. The order of dismissal was based on the State's failure to produce a confidential informant for an in camera examination. We reverse.

As a preface to this opinion, we state that we hope this is an isolated example of prosecutorial indifference to court orders. Indeed, the State supplied the entire grounds upon which this appeal was taken. If only the office of the prosecution had followed an order...

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