Commonwealth v. Redmond

CERCONE, Judge:

These appeals are from two orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, ordering the Commonwealth to disclose the identity of a confidential informant and precluding a state trooper from testifying as a Commonwealth witness as a result of the trooper’s refusal to reveal the informant’s identity. We quash the appeal of one of the orders and affirm the other order of the lower court.

The instant case arose out of the unsolved murder of an eight year old girl in Trainer, Pennsylvania, which occurred thirty-nine years ago. On April 25, 1951, the victim, Jane Althoff, was…