BROWN v. STATE

No. 4D10-66.

65 So.3d 629 (2011)

Willis Melvin BROWN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 27, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Richard B. Greene , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


GROSS, J.

We reverse appellant's conviction because no record was created of an in camera hearing on a defendant's motion to disclose a confidential informant, contrary to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.220(m).

The state charged Willis Brown with the sale or delivery of cocaine and the possession of cocaine. Brown's arrest was facilitated by a confidential informant. According to the arrest affidavit, the CI was present when an undercover officer...

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