State v. Svoleantopoulos

Having been convicted in the Superior Court (Wyman, J.) on charges of possessing a controlled drug and possessing a controlled drug with intent to sell, RSA 318-B:2,1, the *472defendant appeals the denial of his pretrial motion for disclosure of an informer’s identity. We affirm.

Late, in 1983, detectives of the Manchester Police Department received anonymous tips that the defendant, Christos Svoleantopoulos, and his father were selling cocaine and heroin from a local apartment they occupied together. In February 1984, a confidential informer confirmed the tips, and, after the police had verified…