State v. Stallworth

| ] BYRNES, Judge.

The state requests a review of the tidal court’s ruling which ordered the state to produce the confidential informant so that the defense has an opportunity to question the confidential informant prior to the trial in this matter.

Generally, the state is permitted to withhold the identity of the informant; only when the defendant’s right to prepare the defense is prejudiced, should the informer be identified. La.C.Cr.P. art. 723; State v. Fefie, 96-605 (La.App. 5 Cir. 3/25/97), 692 So.2d 1236. The state’s privilege of withholding the identity of an informant protects the…