Rainner v. State

During trial on charges of the sale of cocaine near a school, defendant sought to question one of the police officers involved in the incident as to his location during surveillance of defendant. The state objected and the trial court sustained the objection on the basis of the surveillance location privilege. Because Florida recognizes such a privilege only in unusual circumstances in which the very safety of the witness would be directly compromised by the disclosure, a showing that was not made in this ease, we reverse for a new trial.

At trial the officer testified to surveillance of an…