WARRICK v. STATE

No. 102, September Term, 1991.

326 Md. 696 (1992)

607 A.2d 24

DWIGHT CORNELIUS WARRICK v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 9, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Kreg Paul Greer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and BELL, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves the denial of a motion to compel disclosure of the identity of a state confidential informer in a narcotics prosecution; and whether, where the accused asserts the defense of mistaken identification, it was error to conclude that the informer's identity was irrelevant and that disclosure was therefore not compelled.

I.

In Brooks v. State, 320 Md. 516, 578...

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