State v. Superior Court

OPINION

HOWARD, Chief Judge.

An order of the respondent court granting a motion to compel disclosure of the identity of a confidential informant is the subject of this special action. The State’s position is that it was error to require disclosure where the informant’s only role in the entire matter was to provide the law enforcement officers with sufficient information to constitute probable cause to search.

The respondent court, in granting the motion to disclose, reviewed the disclosure materials of the respective parties and found that the police officers had conducted a warrantless search…