Legal Opinion
State v. Phillips
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided July 21, 1971No. 70-407PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuncait, J.
In the Court of Appeals, the appellant raised this assignment of error: “The court sustained the state’s objection to questions put to the state’s witnesses on cross-examination as to the identity of their informer.” The Court of Appeals held that the facts of this case do not require such a disclosure. We reverse.
In our decision in State v. Roe (1971), 26 Ohio St. 2d 243, Justice Corrigan discussed the value of, and the reasons for the legal genesis of the qualified privilege to withhold from disclosure the identity of persons who furnish information of violations of law to officers charged…
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