State v. Milligan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pashman, J.

In this case the Court once again considers the limits of the government’s privilege to protect the anonymity of police informers. This issue is presented in the context of a prosecution for unlawful possession and dis*378tribution of heroin. The informer, whose identity the State wishes to conceal, introduced a narcotics agent to defendant, accompanied the agent and defendant to the place where the sale was transacted, but did not actually participate in the sale.

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In the fall of 1972 Harry Roberson, an undercover New Jersey State Trooper, was…