Case ID: so2d_356/html/0872-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Aizell Tyrone KITTLES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 77-264.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    March 21, 1978.
    Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, and Stuart M. Lerner, Asst. Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
    Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Marsha G. Madorsky, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Upon review this court is of the opinion that the appellant was entitled to the disclosure of the identity of the confidential informant involved herein on the authority of Woods v. State, Case No. 76-836, 355 So.2d 437, Opinion issued February 7, 1978 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978). Accordingly, this cause is hereby reversed for a new trial and other proceedings consistent with this opinion.

DOWNEY and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.

STETTIN, HERBERT, Associate Judge, concurs specially.

STETTIN, HERBERT, Associate Judge,

concurring specially:

While I agree with the decision of the Court, I believe some.further discussion is required concerning a reversal of the conviction on Count II. The defendant was charged by information in two counts with two separate sales of narcotics to the same undercover policeman. From the testimony at trial, it appears the first sale took place as a result of an introduction by a confidential informant. The second sale took place four days later but without the presence of the confidential informant. Woods v. State, supra, does clearly require reversal as to Count I, and, it seems to me, would also carry over so as to require reversal of the conviction under Count II because 1) the offenses were tried together, and 2) the State’s case rested entirely on the credibility of the undercover police-buyer in both transactions.

I therefore concur in the reversal of both convictions.