Rodriguez v. State

This petition for habeas corpus is brought pursuant to Rule 3.130(c)(2), CrPR, and alleges that petitioner’s application for reduction of bail was erroneously denied by the trial court. Bail was set at *306$500,000, and the application for reduction was denied.

We have reviewed the transcript of the reduction hearing and find that much of the testimony in support of the amount of bail set was by police officers testifying as to what various confidential informers had told them. At one point defense counsel requested the name of an informant, which request was denied as was his motion to strike the…