State v. Superior Court

OPINION

FERNANDEZ, Judge.

The respondent court’s order granting a motion to disclose the name of a confidential informant in a criminal case is the subject of this special action.

On August 7, 1985, an informant (a member of a law enforcement agency) telephoned the Douglas Police Department and described a drug transaction he had witnessed outside a residence in an area north of Douglas and the occupants of a vehicle which left the residence. The information was relayed to a deputy sheriff who stopped a car matching the description. A search of the two passengers, real parties in interest…