State v. Deltoro

Donofrio, Judge.

{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant, the state of Ohio, appeals from a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judgment ordering it to disclose the identity of its confidential informant to defendants-appellees, Franky Deltoro and Armando Rodriguez-Baron.

{¶ 2} During April and May 2005, a confidential informant, working with police, engaged in controlled drug buys involving appellees’ codefendant, Daniel Morales. 1 The information obtained by the informant formed the probable cause for a search warrant that was executed at Morales’s residence on May 17, 2005. On May 14, appellees arrived at…