State v. Devlin

WATHEN, Chief Justice.

Defendant Richard Devlin appeals a judgment of the Superior Court (Andros-coggin County, Alexander, J.) convicting him of aggravated trafficking in a schedule W drug.1 Defendant contends that the court erred in failing to order disclosure of the identity of the State’s confidential informant who possessed relevant evidence about the crime. We agree and vacate the conviction.

The State charged that defendant sold cocaine to an undercover police officer in Lewiston. The police officer and the informant met and conversed with defendant on Birch Street, and the three then…