Opinion ID: 551809
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Identification and Production of Informant

Text: 12 Where the informant's identity is requested by a criminal defendant, the district court's decision not to hold a hearing or disclose the identity of the informant will only be overturned for an abuse of discretion. United States v. Fixen, 780 F.2d 1434 (9th Cir.1986). 13 It is well-settled in this circuit that where the sole ground for seeking disclosure of a reliable informant's identity is to establish whether there was probable cause for a search warrant, the trial court need not require such disclosure. United States v. Fixen, 780 F.2d 1434, 1439 (9th Cir.1986). Here, Watson's investigator's affidavit regarding the Reno hotel did not call into question the veracity of Rivera's affidavit. Nor did the possibility that the apartment manager gave the investigator different information from that which was in Rivera's affidavit sufficiently affect Rivera's credibility. Thus, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in not ordering disclosure of CRI# 2's identity.