Brooks v. State

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

At a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County (Wolff, J.), Barry DeWayne Brooks was convicted of distribution of cocaine and sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the judgment in an unreported opinion. We granted certiorari to determine whether, at a pretrial hearing, the court (Thieme, J.) erred in denying Brooks’s motion to compel disclosure of the State’s informer.

I

On March 4, 1988, Detectives Foote and Young of the Anne Arundel County Police Department were conducting an undercover operation in the Bywater…